Past tense of equivocate; spoke or acted in an ambiguous or misleading way to avoid commitment or truth.
From 'equivocate' (verb), from Medieval Latin 'aequivocare' (to speak ambiguously), from 'aequivocus' (of double meaning). The past tense suffix '-ed' marks completed action.
When politicians say 'I equivocated' in a press conference, it's a rare moment of honesty—usually they just keep equivocating about whether they were equivocating in the first place!
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