Sentence examples for the equivocal from inspiring English sources
adjective
Having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation; ambiguous; uncertain.
ART dealing, like lawyering, is one of the equivocal professions.
Through the years, the equivocal findings were wildly misinterpreted.
Another criticism of Kerry's choice is the equivocal message of the poem itself.
Gorky's self-abnegating success with it has the equivocal glory of a saint's welcomed martyrdom.
The equivocal, grudging and self-justifying tone of yesterday's statements suggests it will be an uphill struggle.
Ravelstein, we learn, "relished louche encounters, the fishy and the equivocal," but that is all we learn.
As the equivocal Macbeth of the early scenes, still susceptible to the dictates of honor, he is perfectly convincing.
Away from Everest, the human cost of the tragedy and the equivocal place of climbing mountains in Sherpa culture began to percolate.
In another he describes Mozart as having "a liberated personality" redolent of the "equivocal identity not a few of his operatic characters would insinuate".
From the very first scene-setting sentence – "Somewhere in Afghanistan, or elsewhere" – it seems to slip away from reality into the equivocal phraseology of the fairytale.
He rebuffed them, but the equivocal sexuality of his art anchors it in a time, defined by Surrealism, of avant-garde evangelism for an anti-bourgeois, liberated libido.
