"equivocal wording" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to language which is deliberately vague, misleading, or unclear. For example, you could say, "The politician's statement was full of equivocal wording, making it difficult to understand her actual intentions."
"In the face of an unjust law," the bishops wrote, "an accommodation is not to be sought, especially by resorting to equivocal words and deceptive practices.
Everything in "Woody Allen" comes from within the bubble, and none of the actors, colleagues, family members or critics who appear have a surprising or even slightly equivocal word to say.
Yet one senses in Mackintosh an unwavering, vigilant eye on everything that comes in and out of Theatreland, in spite of his equivocal words – in the same breath, he talks excitedly about his hope to put on the Royal Court's latest production at one of his seven West End theatres, as he did with the theatre's Enron last year).
The answer became clearer with every equivocal word of the Obama administration, and every false step it took in trying to manage the crisis.
Everyone realized that different people could have the same name, but it is important to note that 'Socrates' said of two different people was a standard example of an equivocal term, a word with two unrelated significations (see §5).
In the Metaphysics Aristotle also hints that a critic of the LNC does not get the point insofar as he plays with the equivocal meanings of some words: "for to each formula there might be assigned a different word" (1006b 1006b
Twenty years ago, had my opinion been asked, I would have been equivocal, noncommittal: in a word, intimidated.
As Elizabeth Anscombe wrote in a similar context, 'it is implausible to say that the word is equivocal as it occurs in these different cases' and from the fact that 'we are tempted to speak of "different senses" of a word which is clearly not equivocal, we may infer that we are pretty much in the dark about the character of the concept which it represents' (Anscombe 1963, p. 1).
But in a country where the military has staged or attempted coups 18 times in 80 years, the general's words were equivocal and seemed to lack conviction.
We should note that equivocal terms include homonyms (two words with the same form but different senses, e.g., 'pen'), polysemous words (one word with two or more senses), and, for medieval thinkers, proper names shared by different people.
