4
hesitation(noun, delay, weakness, doubt, uncertainty)
4
imprecision(noun, obscurity, roughness, abstruseness, fuzziness)
4
misrepresentation(noun, cover, line, lie, story)
4
mystification(reasoning, falsehood)
4
obscurity(noun, doubt, uncertainty, vagueness, roughness)
4
quibbling(noun, adjective, deception, mistake, error)
4
shift(noun, slip, trick, escape, lie)
4
speciousness(noun, cover, deception, mistake, error)
4
subterfuge(noun, slip, twist, deception, shift)
3
artifice(noun, deception, shift, escape, mistake)
3
chicanery
3
cunning(noun, slip, shift, escape, routine)
3
double meaning(noun, expression, cover, doubt, uncertainty)
3
doublespeak
3
exaggeration
3
fabrication(noun, line, deception, lie, sham)
3
fencing
3
hedging(noun, avoidance)
3
indeterminacy
3
indetermination
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