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cold shoulder
collapse
related words >
blink
,
brush-off
,
carefully ignore
,
cut
,
cut a corner
,
cut corners
,
cut direct
,
dismissal
,
disregard
,
dodge
,
fudge
,
high-hat
,
humiliation
,
not receive
,
ostracize
,
pass over
,
pass over lightly
,
rebuff
,
refusal
,
repulse
,
scamp
,
skim
,
skim over
,
skim the surface
,
skimp
,
skip over
,
slight
,
slubber over
,
slur
,
slur over
,
sneer
,
sniff
,
snob
,
snort
,
snub
,
spurn
,
spurning
,
the cold shoulder
,
the go-by
,
touch upon
,
touch upon lightly
,
turn away from
,
upstage
last resort
collapse
related words >
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
answer
,
artifice
,
contrivance
,
countermove
,
coup
,
course of action
,
demarche
,
dernier ressort
,
device
,
dodge
,
effort
,
expedient
,
gimmick
,
hope
,
improvisation
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
last expedient
,
last shift
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
means
,
measure
,
move
,
pis aller
,
recourse
,
resort
,
resource
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
solution
,
step
,
stopgap
,
stratagem
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
tactic
,
temporary expedient
,
trick
,
trump
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
avoidance
collapse
deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
related words >
Encratism
,
Friday
,
Lenten fare
,
Pythagoreanism
,
Pythagorism
,
Rechabitism
,
Shakerism
,
Spartan fare
,
Stoicism
,
abstainment
,
abstemiousness
,
abstention
,
abstinence
,
asceticism
,
banyan day
,
celibacy
,
chastity
,
continence
,
cringe
,
dodge
,
duck
,
elusion
,
eschewal
,
evasion
,
fallback
,
fast
,
fish day
,
flinch
,
fruitarianism
,
gymnosophy
,
nephalism
,
plain living
,
pullback
,
pullout
,
recoil
,
refraining
,
refrainment
,
retreat
,
runaround
,
sexual abstinence
,
shunning
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidestepping
,
simple diet
,
spare diet
,
teetotalism
,
the pledge
,
total abstinence
,
vegetarianism
,
wince
slip out of
collapse
related words >
bow out
,
cast off
,
creep out of
,
depart
,
disappear
,
dodge
,
doff
,
dog it
,
douse
,
drop
,
duck
,
duck duty
,
duck out
,
escape
,
exit
,
find a loophole
,
get out of
,
go on furlough
,
go on leave
,
goldbrick
,
goof off
,
leave the scene
,
malinger
,
mooch off
,
not pull fair
,
put off
,
remove
,
shirk
,
shuffle out of
,
skulk
,
skulk away
,
slack
,
slide off
,
slide out of
,
slink off
,
slip away
,
slip off
,
slip out
,
slip through
,
slither off
,
sneak off
,
sneak out
,
sneak out of
,
sneak through
,
soldier
,
squirm out of
,
steal away
,
step out of
,
take leave
,
take off
,
throw off
,
undo
,
unwrap
,
welsh
,
worm out of
,
wriggle out of
draw back
collapse
related words >
avoid
,
back down
,
back out
,
beat a retreat
,
blench
,
blink
,
cringe
,
discount
,
disengage
,
dodge
,
draw in
,
draw off
,
duck
,
evade
,
fade
,
fall back
,
flinch
,
funk
,
give ground
,
give place
,
go back
,
hang back
,
jib
,
knock off
,
move back
,
pull back
,
pull in
,
pull out
,
quail
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
retire
,
retract
,
retreat
,
run back
,
sheer off
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
stand back
,
start aside
,
start back
,
subtract
,
swerve
,
take
,
take away
,
take off
,
take out
,
turn aside
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
,
withdraw
prevaricate
collapse
related words >
around the bush
,
back and fill
,
be untruthful
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
belie
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
choplogic
,
deceive
,
dodge
,
draw the longbow
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
exaggerate
,
falsify
,
fence
,
fib
,
garble
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hum and haw
,
lie
,
lie flatly
,
mince the truth
,
mince words
,
mislead
,
misrepresent
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
palter
,
parry
,
pick nits
,
pussyfoot
,
quibble
,
shift
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
speak falsely
,
split hairs
,
story
,
stretch the truth
,
tell a lie
,
tergiversate
,
waffle
,
weasel
steer clear of
collapse
related words >
avert
,
avoid
,
be stuck-up
,
bear off
,
dodge
,
draw aside
,
ease off
,
edge off
,
fight shy of
,
fly off
,
gee
,
give place to
,
glance
,
glance off
,
go off
,
haw
,
head off
,
hold aloof
,
hold away from
,
jib
,
keep aloof
,
keep away
,
keep away from
,
keep clear of
,
keep from
,
keep hands off
,
keep remote from
,
let alone
,
maintain distance
,
make way for
,
move aside
,
not meddle with
,
not touch
,
refuse to receive
,
sheer off
,
shove aside
,
shun
,
shunt
,
shy
,
shy off
,
side
,
sidestep
,
sidetrack
,
sidle
,
spurn
,
stand aloof
,
stand clear of
,
stand off
,
stay detached from
,
step aside
,
switch
,
turn aside
,
turn away
,
turn away from
,
turn back
,
veer off
blow hot and cold
collapse
related words >
alternate
,
around the bush
,
back and fill
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
change
,
chop and change
,
choplogic
,
dither
,
dodge
,
ebb and flow
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fence
,
flounder
,
fluctuate
,
go through phases
,
hedge
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
oscillate
,
palter
,
parry
,
pendulate
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pussyfoot
,
quibble
,
ring the changes
,
seesaw
,
shift
,
shilly-shally
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
split hairs
,
stagger
,
sway
,
swing
,
teeter
,
teeter-totter
,
tergiversate
,
totter
,
turn
,
vacillate
,
vary
,
waver
,
wax and wane
,
wobble
skimp
collapse
work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
related words >
begrudge
,
blink
,
carefully ignore
,
cold-shoulder
,
cut a corner
,
cut corners
,
dodge
,
economize
,
enforce economies
,
exiguous
,
famish
,
fudge
,
grudge
,
husband
,
keep within compass
,
live upon nothing
,
make ends meet
,
manage
,
pass over
,
pass over lightly
,
pinch
,
pinch pennies
,
poor
,
put something aside
,
save
,
scamp
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scrape
,
scrape and save
,
screw
,
scrimp
,
scrimpy
,
short
,
skim
,
skim over
,
skim the surface
,
skimpy
,
skip over
,
slight
,
slubber over
,
slur
,
slur over
,
spare
,
sparse
,
starve
,
stint
,
touch upon
,
touch upon lightly
shun
collapse
avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
related words >
abstain
,
abstain from
,
avoid
,
be stuck-up
,
bilk
,
cold-shoulder
,
decline
,
despise
,
disdain
,
do without
,
dodge
,
double
,
duck
,
elude
,
eschew
,
evade
,
fight shy of
,
forbear
,
forgo
,
give place to
,
give up
,
hold aloof
,
hold aloof from
,
hold back
,
keep aloof
,
keep away from
,
keep clear of
,
keep from
,
keep hands off
,
keep remote from
,
let alone
,
let go by
,
make way for
,
never touch
,
not meddle with
,
not touch
,
pass up
,
rebuff
,
refrain
,
refrain from
,
refuse
,
reject
,
run away from
,
scorn
,
shrink from
,
shy
,
snub
,
spare
,
spurn
,
stand
,
stand aloof
,
stand aloof from
,
stay detached from
,
steer clear of
,
turn away from
,
withhold
hit the high spots
collapse
related words >
abridge
,
blink
,
brief
,
browse
,
capsule
,
capsulize
,
carefully ignore
,
cold-shoulder
,
condense
,
cut a corner
,
cut corners
,
dip into
,
dodge
,
examine cursorily
,
fudge
,
give the once-over
,
glance at
,
glance over
,
glance through
,
nutshell
,
outline
,
page through
,
pass over
,
pass over lightly
,
run over
,
run through
,
scamp
,
scan
,
scratch the surface
,
shorten
,
sketch
,
sketch out
,
skim
,
skim over
,
skim the surface
,
skimp
,
skip over
,
slight
,
slip through
,
slubber over
,
slur
,
slur over
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
thumb over
,
thumb through
,
touch upon
,
touch upon lightly
,
zip through
coup
collapse
a brilliant and notable success
related words >
abduction
,
accomplished fact
,
accomplishment
,
achievement
,
act
,
acta
,
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
adventure
,
answer
,
apprehension
,
arrest
,
arrestation
,
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
blind
,
blow
,
breath
,
capture
,
catch
,
catching
,
chicanery
,
collaring
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
countermove
,
course of action
,
crack
,
craft
,
cute trick
,
dealings
,
deceit
,
deed
,
demarche
,
design
,
device
,
dodge
,
doing
,
doings
,
dragnet
,
effort
,
endeavor
,
enterprise
,
expedient
,
exploit
,
fait accompli
,
fakement
,
feat
,
feint
,
fetch
,
flash
,
forcible seizure
,
gambit
,
game
,
gest
,
gimmick
,
go
,
grab
,
grabbing
,
grift
,
half a jiffy
,
half a mo
,
half a second
,
half a shake
,
hand
,
handiwork
,
hold
,
improvisation
,
instant
,
intrigue
,
jiff
,
jiffy
,
job
,
jugglery
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
kidnapping
,
knavery
,
last expedient
,
last resort
,
last shift
,
little game
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
means
,
measure
,
microsecond
,
millisecond
,
minute
,
moment
,
move
,
nabbing
,
operation
,
overt act
,
passage
,
performance
,
picking up
,
pis aller
,
plot
,
ploy
,
power grab
,
prehension
,
proceeding
,
production
,
racket
,
red herring
,
res gestae
,
resort
,
resource
,
running in
,
ruse
,
scheme
,
sec
,
second
,
seizure
,
seizure of power
,
shake
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
sleight
,
snatch
,
snatching
,
solution
,
split second
,
step
,
stopgap
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
stunt
,
subterfuge
,
tactic
,
taking in
,
taking into custody
,
temporary expedient
,
thing
,
thing done
,
tick
,
tour de force
,
transaction
,
trice
,
trick
,
trickery
,
trump
,
turn
,
twink
,
twinkle
,
twinkling
,
twitch
,
two shakes
,
undertaking
,
wile
,
wily device
,
wink
,
work
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
,
works
tergiversate
collapse
related words >
alternate
,
apostatize
,
around the bush
,
back and fill
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
change
,
choplogic
,
come round
,
desert
,
dither
,
do a flip-flop
,
do an about-face
,
dodge
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fence
,
fluctuate
,
have second thoughts
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hum and haw
,
mince the truth
,
mince words
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
oscillate
,
palter
,
parry
,
pendulate
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pussyfoot
,
quibble
,
rat
,
renounce
,
repudiate
,
shift
,
shilly-shally
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
split hairs
,
teeter
,
totter
,
turn
,
vacillate
,
vary
,
waffle
,
waver
,
weasel
,
wheel
,
wobble
stratagem
collapse
related words >
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
alibi
,
answer
,
apology
,
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
bag of tricks
,
blind
,
bluff
,
bosey
,
cabal
,
catch
,
chicanery
,
chouse
,
cloak
,
collusion
,
color
,
complicity
,
complot
,
confederacy
,
connivance
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
contriving
,
countermove
,
counterplot
,
coup
,
course of action
,
cover
,
cover story
,
cover-up
,
covin
,
craft
,
curve
,
curve-ball
,
cute trick
,
deceit
,
deep-laid plot
,
demarche
,
design
,
device
,
dirty deal
,
dirty trick
,
dodge
,
effort
,
engineering
,
excuse
,
expedient
,
facade
,
fakement
,
fast deal
,
feint
,
fetch
,
ficelle
,
finagling
,
finesse
,
frame-up
,
front
,
gambit
,
game
,
gimmick
,
gloss
,
googly
,
grift
,
guise
,
handle
,
hocus-pocus
,
improvisation
,
intrigue
,
joker
,
juggle
,
jugglery
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
knavery
,
lame excuse
,
last expedient
,
last resort
,
last shift
,
little game
,
locus standi
,
lure
,
machination
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
maneuvering
,
manipulation
,
mask
,
means
,
measure
,
move
,
ostensible motive
,
pass
,
pis aller
,
plan
,
play
,
plot
,
plotting
,
ploy
,
poor excuse
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
protestation
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
racket
,
red herring
,
refuge
,
resort
,
resource
,
rigging
,
ruse
,
scheme
,
schemery
,
scheming
,
screen
,
scurvy trick
,
semblance
,
shake-up
,
sham
,
shift
,
show
,
sleight
,
sleight of hand
,
sleight-of-hand trick
,
smoke screen
,
solution
,
stalking-horse
,
step
,
stopgap
,
strategy
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
subterfuge
,
tactic
,
temporary expedient
,
trick
,
trickery
,
trump
,
underplot
,
varnish
,
veil
,
web of intrigue
,
wile
,
wily device
,
wire-pulling
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
backpedal
collapse
modify one's opinion, make it less strong
step backwards, in boxing
pedal backwards on a bicycle
related words >
arrest
,
back
,
back away
,
back off
,
back out
,
back up
,
backtrack
,
backtrail
,
backwater
,
brake
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
countermarch
,
crawfish out
,
cry off
,
curb
,
decelerate
,
delay
,
detain
,
dodge
,
draw rein
,
duck
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
elude
,
evade
,
get around
,
go into reverse
,
hold back
,
hold in check
,
hold up
,
impede
,
keep back
,
let down
,
let up
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
make sternway
,
moderate
,
obstruct
,
reef
,
rein in
,
relax
,
renege
,
resile
,
retard
,
reverse
,
set back
,
shirk
,
sidestep
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
stay
,
take in sail
,
throttle down
,
welsh
conspiracy
collapse
a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
related words >
Anschluss
,
accompaniment
,
accordance
,
addition
,
affiliation
,
agglomeration
,
aggregation
,
agreement
,
alliance
,
amalgamation
,
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
assimilation
,
association
,
blend
,
blending
,
blind
,
cabal
,
cahoots
,
cartel
,
centralization
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
co-working
,
coaction
,
coalescence
,
coalition
,
coincidence
,
collaboration
,
collectivity
,
collusion
,
combination
,
combine
,
combined effort
,
combo
,
complicity
,
complot
,
composition
,
concert
,
concerted action
,
concomitance
,
concordance
,
concourse
,
concurrence
,
confederacy
,
confederation
,
confluence
,
congeries
,
conglomeration
,
conjugation
,
conjunction
,
conn
,
connivance
,
connivery
,
consilience
,
consolidation
,
contrivance
,
contriving
,
cooperation
,
correspondence
,
counterplot
,
coup
,
covin
,
craft
,
cute trick
,
deceit
,
deep-laid plot
,
design
,
device
,
dirty work
,
disloyalty
,
dodge
,
dodgery
,
ecumenism
,
embodiment
,
encompassment
,
engineering
,
enosis
,
expedient
,
faithlessness
,
fakement
,
falsity
,
federalization
,
federation
,
feint
,
fetch
,
finagling
,
finesse
,
foul play
,
frame-up
,
fusion
,
gambit
,
game
,
gimmick
,
grift
,
hookup
,
inclusion
,
incorporation
,
integration
,
intrigue
,
jugglery
,
junction
,
junta
,
knavery
,
league
,
little game
,
machination
,
maneuver
,
maneuvering
,
manipulation
,
marriage
,
meld
,
melding
,
merger
,
move
,
package
,
package deal
,
parasitism
,
perfidiousness
,
perfidy
,
pettifoggery
,
pettifogging
,
plot
,
plotting
,
ploy
,
practice
,
racket
,
red herring
,
rigging
,
ruse
,
saprophytism
,
scheme
,
schemery
,
scheming
,
sedition
,
sharp practice
,
shift
,
simultaneity
,
skulduggery
,
sleight
,
solidification
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
subterfuge
,
supercherie
,
symbiosis
,
synchronism
,
syncretism
,
syndication
,
syneresis
,
synergy
,
synthesis
,
tactic
,
tie-up
,
treacherousness
,
treachery
,
treason
,
trick
,
trickery
,
underhand dealing
,
underplot
,
unification
,
union
,
united action
,
web of intrigue
,
wedding
,
wile
,
wily device
,
wire-pulling
refraining
collapse
related words >
Encratism
,
Friday
,
Lenten fare
,
Pythagoreanism
,
Pythagorism
,
Rechabitism
,
Shakerism
,
Spartan fare
,
Stoicism
,
abstainment
,
abstemiousness
,
abstention
,
abstinence
,
asceticism
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
banyan day
,
celibacy
,
chastity
,
circumvention
,
continence
,
defense mechanism
,
dodge
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
eschewal
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
fast
,
fish day
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
fruitarianism
,
getting around
,
gymnosophy
,
jink
,
nephalism
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
plain living
,
prevention
,
refrainment
,
sexual abstinence
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
simple diet
,
slip
,
spare diet
,
teetotalism
,
the pledge
,
the runaround
,
total abstinence
,
vegetarianism
,
zigzag
mystify
collapse
make mysterious; "mystify the story"
related words >
addle
,
amaze
,
around the bush
,
baffle
,
bamboozle
,
beat
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
bewilder
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
buffalo
,
cavil
,
choplogic
,
complicate
,
confound
,
confuse
,
corrupt
,
daze
,
dodge
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fence
,
floor
,
flummox
,
fool
,
fuddle
,
garble
,
get
,
hedge
,
hoax
,
humbug
,
jumble
,
keep in suspense
,
lick
,
make unintelligible
,
maze
,
misadvise
,
misdirect
,
miseducate
,
misguide
,
misinform
,
misinstruct
,
mislead
,
misteach
,
mix up
,
muddle
,
nitpick
,
nonplus
,
obfuscate
,
obscure
,
palter
,
parry
,
perplex
,
pervert
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pussyfoot
,
puzzle
,
quibble
,
scramble
,
shadow
,
shift
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
split hairs
,
stick
,
stump
,
tergiversate
,
throw
skulk
collapse
move stealthily; "The lonely man skulks down the main street all day"
related words >
army
,
bunch
,
clock watcher
,
colony
,
couch
,
cower
,
creep
,
cringe
,
crouch
,
dodge
,
dog it
,
drift
,
drive
,
drove
,
duck
,
duck duty
,
eye-servant
,
flock
,
gam
,
gang
,
get out of
,
goldbrick
,
goldbricker
,
goof off
,
gumshoe
,
herd
,
host
,
kennel
,
lay wait
,
lie in wait
,
litter
,
lurk
,
malinger
,
malingerer
,
nightwalk
,
not pull fair
,
old soldier
,
pack
,
pod
,
pride
,
prowl
,
pussyfoot
,
quail
,
school
,
shadow
,
shirk
,
shirker
,
shoal
,
skulker
,
slack
,
slacker
,
slide out of
,
slink
,
slip
,
slip out of
,
sloth
,
snake
,
sneak
,
sneak out of
,
soldier
,
stalk
,
steal
,
tax dodger
,
tiptoe
,
trip
,
troop
,
truant
,
welsh
,
welsher
means to an end
collapse
related words >
ability
,
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
answer
,
artifice
,
capacity
,
capital
,
contrivance
,
countermove
,
coup
,
course of action
,
demarche
,
device
,
devices
,
disposable resources
,
dodge
,
effort
,
expedient
,
funds
,
gimmick
,
improvisation
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
last expedient
,
last resort
,
last shift
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
means
,
measure
,
method
,
move
,
pis aller
,
power
,
recourses
,
resort
,
resorts
,
resource
,
resources
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
solution
,
step
,
stock
,
stopgap
,
stratagem
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
supply
,
tactic
,
temporary expedient
,
trick
,
trump
,
ways
,
ways and means
,
wherewith
,
wherewithal
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
scam
collapse
a fraudulent business scheme
related words >
ballot-box stuffing
,
beat
,
beguile of
,
bilk
,
bunco
,
burn
,
cardsharping
,
cheat
,
cheating
,
chisel
,
chouse
,
chouse out of
,
cog
,
cog the dice
,
con
,
cozen
,
cozenage
,
crib
,
defraud
,
diddle
,
diddling
,
dishonesty
,
do in
,
do out of
,
dodge
,
euchre
,
finagle
,
fishy transaction
,
flam
,
fleece
,
flimflam
,
fob
,
fraud
,
fraudulence
,
fraudulency
,
fudge
,
gerrymandering
,
gouge
,
graft
,
grift
,
gull
,
gyp
,
gyp joint
,
have
,
hocus
,
hocus-pocus
,
illicit business
,
imposition
,
imposture
,
mulct
,
pack the deal
,
pigeon
,
practice fraud upon
,
racket
,
rook
,
screw
,
sell gold bricks
,
shave
,
shortchange
,
stack the cards
,
stick
,
sting
,
swindle
,
take a dive
,
thimblerig
,
throw a fight
,
victimize
elude
collapse
escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
related words >
avoid
,
baffle
,
balk
,
beg
,
bewilder
,
bilk
,
blast
,
brave
,
challenge
,
checkmate
,
circumvent
,
confound
,
confront
,
confuse
,
contravene
,
counter
,
counteract
,
countermand
,
counterwork
,
cross
,
dash
,
deceive
,
defeat
,
defy
,
destroy
,
discomfit
,
disconcert
,
discountenance
,
dish
,
disrupt
,
ditch
,
dodge
,
double
,
duck
,
escape
,
eschew
,
evade
,
flee
,
flummox
,
fly
,
foil
,
frustrate
,
get around
,
get away from
,
get out of
,
get round
,
give the runaround
,
give the slip
,
go one better
,
knock the chocks
,
nonplus
,
outfigure
,
outflank
,
outgeneral
,
outguess
,
outmaneuver
,
outplay
,
outreach
,
outsmart
,
outwit
,
overreach
,
pass the buck
,
perplex
,
puzzle
,
ruin
,
sabotage
,
scotch
,
shake
,
shake off
,
shuffle out of
,
shun
,
shy
,
skirt
,
spike
,
spoil
,
stonewall
,
stump
,
thwart
,
upset
,
victimize
hem and haw
collapse
utter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd"
related words >
about the bush
,
back and fill
,
back down
,
balance
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
debate
,
deliberate
,
demur
,
dodge
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
falter
,
fear
,
fence
,
halt
,
hang back
,
haw
,
hedge
,
hem
,
hesitate
,
hover
,
hum
,
hum and haw
,
jib
,
mammer
,
mince the truth
,
mince words
,
palter
,
parry
,
pause
,
ponder
,
prevaricate
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
recoil
,
retreat
,
scruple
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shilly-shally
,
shrink
,
shy
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
sidestep
,
stammer
,
step aside
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
stop to consider
,
straddle the fence
,
strain at
,
stumble
,
stutter
,
swerve
,
tergiversate
,
think twice about
,
waffle
,
ward off
,
weasel
,
withdraw
,
yield
nonintervention
collapse
a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes
related words >
autarky
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
bimetallism
,
capitalism
,
circumvention
,
defense mechanism
,
dodge
,
duck
,
economic self-sufficiency
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
free competition
,
free enterprise
,
free trade
,
getting around
,
governmentalism
,
isolationism
,
jink
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
let-alone policy
,
let-alone principle
,
liberalism
,
line
,
localism
,
managed currency
,
neutrality
,
noninterference
,
noninvolvement
,
nullification
,
party line
,
party principle
,
planned economy
,
policy
,
polity
,
position
,
prevention
,
price supports
,
protection
,
protectionism
,
public policy
,
pump-priming
,
refraining
,
sectionalism
,
self-regulating market
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
the runaround
,
zigzag
intrigue
collapse
a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
a clandestine love affair
cause to be interested or curious
related words >
Byzantine intrigues
,
absorb
,
adulterous affair
,
adultery
,
affair
,
amor
,
amour
,
angle
,
appeal
,
art
,
artful dodge
,
artfulness
,
artifice
,
attract
,
backstairs influence
,
becharm
,
beguile
,
bewitch
,
blind
,
brew
,
cabal
,
captivate
,
carry away
,
cast a spell
,
charm
,
chicanery
,
cogitate
,
collogue
,
collude
,
collusion
,
complicity
,
complot
,
concoct
,
confederacy
,
connections
,
connivance
,
connive
,
conspiracy
,
conspire
,
contrivance
,
contrive
,
contriving
,
cook up
,
countermine
,
counterplot
,
coup
,
covin
,
craft
,
craftiness
,
credibility gap
,
cuckoldry
,
cute trick
,
deals
,
deceit
,
deceitfulness
,
deception
,
deep-laid plot
,
design
,
device
,
devise
,
disingenuousness
,
dodge
,
double-dealing
,
enchant
,
engineer
,
engineering
,
enrapture
,
enravish
,
entanglement
,
enthrall
,
entrance
,
eternal triangle
,
excite
,
expedient
,
fakement
,
falseheartedness
,
fascinate
,
feint
,
fetch
,
finagle
,
finagling
,
finesse
,
flirtation
,
forbidden love
,
forswearing
,
frame
,
frame up
,
frame-up
,
fraud
,
gambit
,
game
,
games
,
gerrymander
,
gimmick
,
grift
,
guile
,
hanky-panky
,
hatch
,
hatch a plot
,
hatch up
,
hypnotize
,
illicit love
,
infatuate
,
infidelity
,
influence peddling
,
insincerity
,
interest
,
intimacy
,
intrigues
,
jockey
,
jugglery
,
knavery
,
lay a plot
,
liaison
,
little game
,
lobbying
,
lobbyism
,
love affair
,
machinate
,
machination
,
maneuver
,
maneuvering
,
manipulate
,
manipulation
,
mesmerize
,
move
,
operate
,
perjury
,
pique
,
play games
,
plot
,
plotting
,
ploy
,
ploys
,
practice
,
pull strings
,
racket
,
red herring
,
rig
,
rigging
,
romance
,
romantic tie
,
ropes
,
ruse
,
scheme
,
schemery
,
schemes
,
scheming
,
sharp practice
,
shift
,
sleight
,
spell
,
spellbind
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
strings
,
subterfuge
,
tactic
,
titillate
,
transport
,
triangle
,
trick
,
trickery
,
uncandidness
,
uncandor
,
underplot
,
unfaithfulness
,
unfrankness
,
unsincereness
,
untruthfulness
,
vamp
,
wangle
,
web of intrigue
,
wile
,
wily device
,
wire-pulling
,
wires
,
witch
bilk
collapse
evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"
cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
related words >
avoid
,
baffle
,
balk
,
beat
,
beguile of
,
bunco
,
burn
,
cast down
,
cheat
,
chisel
,
chouse
,
chouse out of
,
circumvent
,
cog
,
cog the dice
,
con
,
cozen
,
crib
,
cross
,
dash
,
defeat
,
defeat expectation
,
defraud
,
diddle
,
disappoint
,
disillusion
,
dissatisfy
,
do
,
do in
,
do out of
,
dodge
,
double
,
duck
,
elude
,
eschew
,
euchre
,
evade
,
finagle
,
flam
,
fleece
,
flimflam
,
fob
,
foil
,
frustrate
,
fudge
,
gouge
,
gull
,
gyp
,
have
,
hocus
,
hocus-pocus
,
let down
,
mulct
,
overreach
,
pack the deal
,
pigeon
,
practice fraud upon
,
rook
,
ruin
,
scam
,
screw
,
sell gold bricks
,
shake
,
shave
,
shortchange
,
shun
,
shy
,
stack the cards
,
stick
,
sting
,
swindle
,
take a dive
,
tantalize
,
tease
,
thimblerig
,
throw a fight
,
thwart
,
victimize
blench
collapse
related words >
ache
,
agonize
,
ail
,
anguish
,
avoid
,
blanch
,
bleach
,
blink
,
boggle
,
cringe
,
decolor
,
decolorize
,
demur
,
dodge
,
draw back
,
duck
,
evade
,
fade
,
fall back
,
falter
,
feel pain
,
feel the pangs
,
fight shy of
,
flinch
,
funk
,
grimace
,
hang back
,
hang off
,
have a misery
,
have qualms
,
hesitate
,
hold off
,
hurt
,
jib
,
make bones about
,
pause
,
pound
,
pull back
,
quail
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
retreat
,
scruple
,
sheer off
,
shoot
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shy
,
shy at
,
sidestep
,
smart
,
squinch
,
start
,
start aside
,
start back
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
strain
,
suffer
,
swerve
,
thrill
,
throb
,
tingle
,
turn aside
,
twinge
,
twitch
,
waver
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
white
,
wince
,
writhe
sheer off
collapse
related words >
about the bush
,
avert
,
avoid
,
bear off
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
blench
,
blink
,
cringe
,
dodge
,
draw aside
,
draw back
,
duck
,
ease off
,
edge off
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
fade
,
fall back
,
fence
,
flinch
,
fly off
,
gee
,
glance
,
glance off
,
go off
,
hang back
,
haw
,
head off
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
jib
,
make way for
,
move aside
,
parry
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quail
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
retreat
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shove aside
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shunt
,
shy
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
side
,
sidestep
,
sidetrack
,
sidle
,
start aside
,
start back
,
steer clear of
,
step aside
,
swerve
,
switch
,
turn aside
,
turn away
,
turn back
,
veer off
,
ward off
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
flinch
collapse
draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
related words >
avoid
,
avoidance
,
be startled
,
blanch
,
blench
,
blink
,
boggle
,
cower
,
cringe
,
demur
,
dodge
,
draw back
,
draw in
,
duck
,
elude
,
escape
,
eschew
,
evade
,
evasion
,
fade
,
fall back
,
fallback
,
falter
,
fight shy of
,
funk
,
hang back
,
hang off
,
have qualms
,
hesitate
,
hold off
,
jib
,
jump
,
jump a mile
,
make bones about
,
pause
,
pull back
,
pull in
,
pull out
,
pullback
,
pullout
,
quail
,
recede
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
retire
,
retract
,
retreat
,
scruple
,
sheer off
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shrink from
,
shun
,
shy
,
shy at
,
sidestep
,
sidestepping
,
squinch
,
start
,
start aside
,
start back
,
startle
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
strain
,
swerve
,
turn aside
,
waver
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
,
withdraw
forestalling
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
arrestation
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
awaiting
,
certain
,
circumvention
,
confident
,
debarment
,
defense mechanism
,
determent
,
deterrence
,
deterrent
,
deterring
,
discouragement
,
discouraging
,
dodge
,
duck
,
eager
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
estoppel
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
forbearance
,
forbiddance
,
forbidding
,
forearmed
,
foreclosure
,
forestallment
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
getting around
,
halt
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
jink
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
not surprised
,
obviation
,
optimistic
,
preclusion
,
preclusive
,
prepared
,
preventative
,
prevention
,
preventive
,
prohibition
,
prohibitive
,
prophylactic
,
ready
,
refraining
,
sanguine
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
stay
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
stopping
,
sure
,
the runaround
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
,
zigzag
expedient
collapse
a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"
related words >
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
advantageous
,
advisable
,
agency
,
answer
,
applicable
,
appropriate
,
apropos
,
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
auspicious
,
banausic
,
becoming
,
befitting
,
behind-the-scenes influence
,
beneficial
,
benevolent
,
blind
,
bon
,
bonny
,
braw
,
bueno
,
capital
,
chicanery
,
cogent
,
commendable
,
commodious
,
congruous
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
convenient
,
correct
,
countermove
,
coup
,
course of action
,
craft
,
cute trick
,
deceit
,
decent
,
demarche
,
dernier ressort
,
design
,
desirable
,
device
,
devices
,
dodge
,
effective
,
effort
,
elegant
,
employable
,
estimable
,
excellent
,
expediency
,
expedients
,
fair
,
fakement
,
famous
,
favorable
,
feasible
,
feint
,
felicitous
,
fetch
,
fine
,
fit
,
fitten
,
fitting
,
fortunate
,
fructuous
,
functional
,
gambit
,
game
,
gimmick
,
going between
,
good
,
good for
,
goodly
,
grand
,
grift
,
happy
,
healthy
,
helpful
,
hope
,
improvisation
,
influence
,
instrument
,
instrumentality
,
intermediation
,
intrigue
,
judicious
,
jugglery
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
kind
,
knavery
,
last expedient
,
last resort
,
last shift
,
laudable
,
likely
,
little game
,
lucky
,
machination
,
machinery
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
maneuvering
,
maneuvers
,
manipulation
,
means
,
measure
,
mechanism
,
mediation
,
medium
,
meet
,
move
,
nice
,
noble
,
of general utility
,
of help
,
of service
,
of use
,
opportune
,
pertinent
,
pis aller
,
pleasant
,
plot
,
ploy
,
politic
,
political influence
,
possible
,
practicable
,
practical
,
pragmatic
,
pragmatical
,
profitable
,
proper
,
propitious
,
providential
,
prudent
,
racket
,
recommendable
,
recommended
,
recourse
,
red herring
,
refuge
,
regal
,
resort
,
resource
,
right
,
ripe
,
royal
,
ruse
,
scheme
,
seasonable
,
seemly
,
service
,
serviceable
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
skillful
,
sleight
,
solution
,
sortable
,
sound
,
splendid
,
step
,
stopgap
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
substitute
,
subterfuge
,
suitable
,
tactic
,
tactical
,
tactical maneuvers
,
tactics
,
temporary expedient
,
timely
,
to be desired
,
trick
,
trickery
,
trump
,
useful
,
utilitarian
,
valid
,
very good
,
virtuous
,
well-timed
,
wile
,
wily device
,
wire-pulling
,
wise
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
,
worthwhile
waffle
collapse
pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
related words >
babble
,
back and fill
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blather
,
blether
,
blintz
,
buckwheat cake
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
chat
,
chatter
,
cheese blintz
,
clack
,
clatter
,
crepe
,
dither
,
dodge
,
drivel
,
drool
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
flapcake
,
flapjack
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
go on
,
gossip
,
griddlecake
,
gush
,
haver
,
hem and haw
,
hot cake
,
hum and haw
,
jabber
,
jaw
,
mince the truth
,
mince words
,
natter
,
palacsinta
,
palaver
,
palter
,
pancake
,
parry
,
patter
,
piffle
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prattle
,
prevaricate
,
ramble on
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
reel off
,
run on
,
sidestep
,
spout
,
spout off
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
tergiversate
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
vapor
,
weasel
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
canard
collapse
a deliberately misleading fabrication
related words >
Cornish hen
,
artifice
,
bouncer
,
broiler
,
bruit
,
buzz
,
caille
,
caneton
,
capon
,
chapon
,
chicken
,
common talk
,
concoction
,
cry
,
dindon
,
dodge
,
duck
,
duckling
,
extravaganza
,
fable
,
fabrication
,
faisan
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
fib
,
fiction
,
figment
,
flying rumor
,
forgery
,
fowl
,
fryer
,
goose
,
grapevine
,
grouse
,
guinea hen
,
hearsay
,
hoax
,
humbug
,
idea afloat
,
invention
,
latrine rumor
,
lie
,
misrepresentation
,
myth
,
news stirring
,
oie
,
on-dit
,
partridge
,
pheasant
,
pigeon
,
pigeonneau
,
poulet
,
prevarication
,
quail
,
report
,
roaster
,
romance
,
roorback
,
rumble
,
rumor
,
scuttlebutt
,
sell
,
spoof
,
squab
,
stewing chicken
,
tale
,
talk
,
town talk
,
trick
,
turkey
,
unconfirmed report
,
untruth
,
volaille
,
whisper
,
wild duck
feint
collapse
any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
deceive by a mock action; "The midfielder feinted to shoot"
related words >
acting
,
aerial tactics
,
affectation
,
airborne tactics
,
alibi
,
apology
,
appearance
,
applied tactics
,
armored tactics
,
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
attitudinizing
,
bag of tricks
,
barrier tactics
,
befooling
,
blind
,
bluff
,
bluffing
,
bosey
,
catch
,
cavalry tactics
,
cheat
,
cheating
,
chicanery
,
chouse
,
cloak
,
color
,
coloring
,
commend
,
compliment
,
congratulate
,
conspiracy
,
contemn
,
contrivance
,
counterfeit
,
coup
,
cover
,
cover story
,
cover-up
,
craft
,
curve
,
curve-ball
,
cut
,
cute trick
,
deceit
,
deception
,
defensive strategy
,
delusion
,
design
,
device
,
dirty deal
,
dirty trick
,
disguise
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
distraction
,
diversion
,
dodge
,
encirclement
,
excuse
,
expedient
,
facade
,
face
,
fake
,
fakement
,
fakery
,
faking
,
false air
,
false front
,
false move
,
false show
,
falsity
,
fast deal
,
feigning
,
felicitate
,
fetch
,
ficelle
,
fire tactics
,
four-flushing
,
fraud
,
front
,
gambit
,
game
,
gilt
,
gimmick
,
gloss
,
googly
,
grift
,
guise
,
handle
,
hoax
,
hocus-pocus
,
home thrust
,
hoodwinking
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
imposture
,
infantry tactics
,
infiltration
,
intrigue
,
investment
,
jab
,
jig
,
joker
,
juggle
,
jugglery
,
knavery
,
lame excuse
,
little game
,
locus standi
,
lunge
,
make-believe
,
maneuver
,
mask
,
masquerade
,
meretriciousness
,
mob tactics
,
mobile tactics
,
move
,
ostensible motive
,
ostentation
,
outward show
,
pass
,
pincers movement
,
play
,
playacting
,
plot
,
ploy
,
poor excuse
,
pose
,
posing
,
posture
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
protestation
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
racket
,
recommend
,
red herring
,
refuge
,
representation
,
resort
,
ruse
,
salute
,
scheme
,
screen
,
scurvy trick
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
sham
,
shift
,
shock tactics
,
show
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
sleight
,
sleight of hand
,
sleight-of-hand trick
,
smoke screen
,
speciousness
,
stab
,
stalking-horse
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
subterfuge
,
swing
,
tactic
,
tactics
,
thrust
,
trick
,
trickery
,
varnish
,
veil
,
whizzer
,
wile
,
wily device
,
window dressing
curve
collapse
a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter
a line on a graph representing data
the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
arc
,
arch
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
bag of tricks
,
bear off
,
bend
,
bend back
,
bias
,
blind
,
bluff
,
bosey
,
bow
,
bowl
,
branch off
,
branching off
,
cast
,
catacaustic
,
catch
,
catenary
,
caustic
,
change of pace
,
change the bearing
,
change-up
,
chicanery
,
chouse
,
chuck
,
chunk
,
circle
,
circuit
,
circuitousness
,
circumference
,
coil
,
compass
,
conchoid
,
corner
,
crook
,
curl
,
curvation
,
curvature
,
curve-ball
,
declination
,
decurve
,
deflect
,
depart from
,
departure
,
design
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviate
,
deviation
,
device
,
deviousness
,
diacaustic
,
diffract
,
diffuse
,
digress
,
digression
,
dirty deal
,
dirty trick
,
discursion
,
disperse
,
distort
,
divagate
,
divagation
,
divaricate
,
divarication
,
diverge
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
divert
,
dodge
,
dogleg
,
dome
,
double
,
downcurve
,
drift
,
drifting
,
ellipse
,
embow
,
errantry
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
fast deal
,
fastball
,
feint
,
festoon
,
fetch
,
ficelle
,
flex
,
fling
,
flip
,
forward pass
,
gambit
,
gimmick
,
googly
,
hairpin
,
heave
,
heel
,
hocus-pocus
,
hook
,
hump
,
hunch
,
hurl
,
hyperbola
,
incurvate
,
incurvation
,
incurvature
,
incurve
,
indirection
,
inflect
,
inflection
,
joker
,
juggle
,
knuckleball
,
lateral
,
lateral pass
,
lituus
,
lob
,
loop
,
obliquity
,
outcurve
,
parabola
,
pass
,
peg
,
pererration
,
pitch
,
ploy
,
pull
,
put
,
rambling
,
recurve
,
reflect
,
reflex
,
refract
,
retroflex
,
rondure
,
round
,
ruse
,
sag
,
scatter
,
scheme
,
screwball
,
scurvy trick
,
serve
,
service
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
shot-put
,
shy
,
sinker
,
sinus
,
skew
,
slant
,
sleight
,
sleight of hand
,
sleight-of-hand trick
,
slider
,
sling
,
spiral
,
spitball
,
spitter
,
stratagem
,
straying
,
subterfuge
,
swag
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swerving
,
swinging
,
tack
,
throw
,
toss
,
tracery
,
trend
,
trick
,
turn
,
turn aside
,
turning
,
twist
,
upcurve
,
variation
,
vary
,
vault
,
veer
,
wandering
,
warp
,
wile
,
wind
,
yaw
,
zigzag
split hairs
collapse
related words >
analyze
,
anatomize
,
around the bush
,
atomize
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
change
,
chop logic
,
choplogic
,
contradistinguish
,
demarcate
,
demark
,
desynonymize
,
difference
,
differentiate
,
discriminate
,
disequalize
,
disjoin
,
distinguish
,
diversify
,
divide
,
dodge
,
draw the line
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fence
,
hedge
,
individualize
,
individuate
,
make a distinction
,
mark
,
mark off
,
mark out
,
mark the interface
,
modify
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
palter
,
parry
,
particularize
,
personalize
,
pick nits
,
pick out
,
prevaricate
,
pussyfoot
,
quibble
,
refine a distinction
,
screen
,
screen out
,
segregate
,
select
,
separate
,
set a limit
,
set apart
,
set off
,
sever
,
severalize
,
shift
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sieve
,
sieve out
,
sift
,
sift out
,
sort
,
sort out
,
specialize
,
subdivide
,
subtilize
,
tergiversate
,
vary
,
winnow
dishonesty
collapse
lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
the quality of being dishonest
related words >
Machiavellianism
,
ambidexterity
,
artifice
,
bad faith
,
ballot-box stuffing
,
bunco
,
cardsharping
,
cheat
,
cheating
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
corruptedness
,
corruption
,
corruptness
,
cozenage
,
credibility gap
,
criminality
,
crookedness
,
cunning
,
deceitfulness
,
deviousness
,
diddle
,
diddling
,
dishonor
,
dodge
,
double-dealing
,
doubleness
,
doubleness of heart
,
duplicity
,
evasiveness
,
faithlessness
,
falseheartedness
,
falsehood
,
falseness
,
feloniousness
,
fibbery
,
fibbing
,
fishy transaction
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
fraud
,
fraudulence
,
fraudulency
,
gerrymandering
,
graft
,
grift
,
gyp
,
gyp joint
,
hanky-panky
,
illicit business
,
imposition
,
imposture
,
improbity
,
indirection
,
low cunning
,
lying
,
mendaciousness
,
mendacity
,
mythomania
,
pseudology
,
racket
,
scam
,
shadiness
,
sharp practice
,
shiftiness
,
slipperiness
,
swindle
,
treachery
,
trickery
,
trickiness
,
truthlessness
,
two-facedness
,
unconscientiousness
,
underhandedness
,
unsavoriness
,
unscrupulousness
,
unstraightforwardness
,
untruthfulness
,
unveraciousness
,
wile
slur over
collapse
related words >
allow for
,
becloud
,
befog
,
blanket
,
blind
,
blink
,
blink at
,
camouflage
,
carefully ignore
,
cloak
,
cloud
,
cold-shoulder
,
color
,
conceal
,
cover
,
cover up
,
curtain
,
cut a corner
,
cut corners
,
diminish
,
dip into
,
discount
,
disguise
,
disregard
,
dissemble
,
distract attention from
,
dodge
,
ease
,
eclipse
,
ensconce
,
enshroud
,
envelop
,
examine cursorily
,
extenuate
,
fail
,
forget
,
fudge
,
give the once-over
,
glance at
,
gloss over
,
hide
,
ignore
,
keep under cover
,
lessen
,
make allowance for
,
mask
,
mince
,
mitigate
,
obfuscate
,
obscure
,
occult
,
omit
,
overlook
,
page through
,
palliate
,
pass over
,
pass over lightly
,
scamp
,
scan
,
screen
,
shade
,
shroud
,
skim
,
skim over
,
skim the surface
,
skimp
,
skip over
,
slight
,
slip through
,
slubber over
,
slur
,
soft-pedal
,
soften
,
thumb through
,
touch upon
,
touch upon lightly
,
varnish
,
veil
,
whitewash
,
zip through
get out of
collapse
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arouse
,
bail out
,
beg
,
break away
,
break jail
,
break loose
,
bring forth
,
bring out
,
bring to light
,
call forth
,
call out
,
call up
,
circumvent
,
cut loose
,
deduce
,
derive
,
ditch
,
dodge
,
dog it
,
double
,
drag out
,
draw forth
,
draw out
,
duck
,
duck duty
,
educe
,
elicit
,
elude
,
escape
,
escape prison
,
evade
,
evoke
,
flee
,
fly the coop
,
get around
,
get away
,
get away from
,
get clear of
,
get free
,
get free of
,
get from
,
get off
,
get off scot-free
,
get out
,
get quit of
,
get rid of
,
go at liberty
,
go free
,
go scot free
,
goldbrick
,
goof off
,
induce
,
jump
,
make a getaway
,
malinger
,
not pull fair
,
obtain
,
procure
,
rouse
,
secure
,
shake
,
shake off
,
shirk
,
shuffle out of
,
skip
,
skirt
,
skulk
,
slack
,
slide out of
,
slip out of
,
slip the collar
,
sneak out of
,
soldier
,
stimulate
,
summon forth
,
summon up
,
throw off
,
wangle
,
wangle out of
,
welsh
,
winkle out
,
worm out
,
worm out of
avoid
collapse
stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"
refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
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abstain
,
abstain from
,
avert
,
be stuck-up
,
bilk
,
blench
,
blink
,
circumvent
,
cringe
,
debar
,
deflect
,
divert
,
do without
,
dodge
,
double
,
draw back
,
duck
,
elude
,
escape
,
eschew
,
evade
,
exclude
,
fade
,
fall back
,
fight shy of
,
flinch
,
forbear
,
forbid
,
forgo
,
give place to
,
hang back
,
hold aloof
,
hold aloof from
,
hold back
,
jib
,
keep aloof
,
keep away from
,
keep clear of
,
keep from
,
keep hands off
,
keep off
,
keep remote from
,
leave alone
,
let alone
,
let go by
,
make way for
,
never touch
,
not meddle with
,
not touch
,
obviate
,
pass up
,
preclude
,
prevent
,
prohibit
,
pull back
,
quail
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
refrain
,
refrain from
,
retreat
,
sheer off
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shun
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
spare
,
stand aloof
,
stand aloof from
,
start aside
,
start back
,
stay detached from
,
steer clear of
,
swerve
,
turn aside
,
turn away from
,
ward off
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
,
withhold
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