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stretch the truth collapse

palter collapse

beg the question collapse

nitpick collapse: be overly critical; criticize minor details

beat around the bush collapse: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

misrepresent collapse: represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"

fluctuate collapse: be unstable; "The stock market fluctuates"; move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the line on the monitor vacillated"; cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern

shilly shally collapse

prevaricate collapse

blow hot and cold collapse

tergiversate collapse

mislead collapse: lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"

falsify collapse: falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records"; prove false; "Falsify a claim"; make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

fib collapse: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"; tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"

oscillate collapse: move or swing from side to side regularly; "the needle on the meter was oscillating"

mystify collapse: make mysterious; "mystify the story"

hem and haw collapse: utter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd"

sheer off collapse

waffle collapse: pancake batter baked in a waffle iron

procrastinate collapse: postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"; postpone or delay needlessly; "He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late"

split hairs collapse

chop logic collapse

teeter collapse: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

ward off collapse: avert, turn away, or repel; "Ward off danger"

pussyfoot collapse

hesitate collapse: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"; interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"

weasel collapse: small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck

back and fill collapse

waver collapse: the act of moving back and forth; someone who communicates by waving; sway to and fro

deceive collapse: cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house"; be false to; be dishonest with

vacillate collapse

bicker collapse: a quarrel about petty points

step aside collapse

parry collapse: (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword; impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball); "block an attack"

sidestep collapse: a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

cavil collapse: raise trivial objections

quibble collapse: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

evade collapse: use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"; practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"

exaggerate collapse

pull back collapse: pull back the sling of (a bow); "The archers were drawing their bows"; move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull back your arms!"

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