Originally Posted by RichardPON
Fil - quite right, although his offer was funny!
Doug - equivocal means to be vague or purposely contradictory.
So says the Cambridge Dictonary:
equivocal
adjective FORMAL
unclear and seeming to have two opposing meanings, or confusing and able to be understood in two different ways:
His words to the press were deliberately equivocal - he didn't deny the reports but neither did he confirm them