equivocal

Preposition: about

• policy: Leffler, on the other hand, is rather more equivocal about American foreign policy.

Modifying Another Word

• very: I desire now to direct attention to the very equivocal proceedings of the Crown with regard to this society.
• still: On the phase diagram we have favored the former rather than the latter explanation, although this conclusion is still equivocal at the moment.
• rather: The answer was a rather equivocal " No " .
• often: Intradermal testing is a useful primary screening test but results are often equivocal.
• too: This seemed to him to be ' too equivocal ` .
• also: The data from repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation ( rTMS ) studies in healthy volunteers is also equivocal with respect to HERA.

Preposition: with

• respect: The evidence from these evaluations is equivocal with respect to the effect of ICT on literacy.

Modifies a noun

• result: Equivocal weakly positive results were obtained in the mouse lymphoma assay.
• attitude: The many changes affecting women's property rights during the eighteenth century suggest at best an equivocal attitude to the female subject.
• response: A failure to respond, an evasive or equivocal response or a late response could allow the civil court to draw an adverse inference.
• evidence: There was equivocal evidence for a carcinogenic effect in male mice.
• position: As for the euro, it is not an equivocal position; the tests are quite clear.
• expression: Obscurity may arise from the use of equivocal expressions, of metaphorical phrases, or of eccentric words.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: The Court adopted the following: 1. The cause of an injury or an episode that cannot be explained scientifically remain equivocal.
• seem: His objections were so cautious as to seem equivocal; and so much the more destructive was the attack of the Committee's representatives.
• consider: However, this evidence should not be considered equivocal.