amphibological

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Consequently it must be recognised that the rather amphibological expression "soulless psychology" implies no negation of the existence of the soul.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

Their anfractuousness, their insipience, and their turpitude, are no longer amphibological.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous

That mode of speech, which some theologians call pure mental reservation, others call reservation not simply mental; that language which to me is lying, to the greater part of recent authors is only amphibological....

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

He was at a loss what to say, and the position is only to be regarded as a turbid ebullition of amphibological inanity.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous