equivocal

open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead

• “an equivocal statement”
• “the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates”
• “the officer”
• “s uneasiness”
• “popularity is an equivocal crown”
• “an equivocal response to an embarrassing question”

open to question

• “aliens of equivocal loyalty”
• “his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son” Anna Jameson

uncertain as a sign or indication

• “the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal”