prevarication, vacillation, doublespeak, disingenuousness, certitude, mendacity, obtuseness, facetiousness, hesitation, timidity, weasel words, hypocrisy, ambiguity, pusillanimity, cowardice, condescension, illogic, casuistry, obfuscation, hyperbole, subjunctive mood, falsehood, duplicity, clintonian, presumptuousness, logical fallacy, misspeaks, dissembling, prolixity, sophistry, doubletalk, cynicism, ex cathedra, insincerity, untruth, platitude, wrongheadedness, spinelessness, ineffectuality, avowal, circumlocution, utterance, dissimulation, doublethink, revisionism, cravenness, incredulousness, arrogance, hairsplitting, inarticulateness, speciousness, fecklessness, misquotation, dubiousness, churlishness, pompousness, scruple, demagoguery, incoherence, acquiescence, posturing, reproach, irresolution, apologizer, tautology, sarcasm, dogmatist, sheepishness, syllogism, incuriosity, dishonesty, heterodoxy, assertion, triumphalism, asperity, wrongness, inconstancy, extenuation, exaggeration, smugness, pussyfooting, ineloquent, apologia, balderdash, gutlessness, apologies, vituperation, foolishness, pronouncement, demurring, misconstruction, moralism, forked tongue, nebulousness, incredulity, disavowal, waffling, candor, refutations, justification, defensiveness, unhelpfulness, deception, misunderstanding, confusion, inconsistency, misapprehension, mystification, awkwardness, evasion, subterfuge, contradiction, artifice, perversion, unwillingness, deceptions

circumlocution, doublespeak, hedge, hedging, indirect expression, quibble

ambiguity, deceit, deception, equivocalness, falsehood, falsification, misrepresentation, untruthfulness

evasion, evasiveness, prevarication, tergiversation