They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.
To talk or act insincerely or misleadingly; equivocate .
Don't equivocate with me I want a straight answer to a straight question!
"The Toshiba vice-president's rhetoric reminds the Chinese people of those Japanese politicians who equivocate over Japan's war crimes against China," some pointed out.
Such divisions may partly be causing Iran's government to equivocate in the face of the West's latest proposals for solving the dispute over Iran's nuclear plans.
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