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- mendacious
collapse - intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement" related words >
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- fencing,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- logic-chopping,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shifting,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- weasel words
- fencing
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- the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules) related words >
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- logic-chopping,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shifting,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- swordplay,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- weasel words
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- fencing,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial
- captious
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- tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" related words >
- bickering,
- carping,
- caviling,
- censorious,
- choplogic,
- contrary,
- critic,
- critical,
- cynical,
- demanding,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- exacting,
- faultfinding,
- finicky,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hypercritical,
- irritable,
- logic-chopping,
- nagging,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- overcritical,
- paltering,
- particular,
- peevish,
- pernickety,
- perverse,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- petulant,
- picayune,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shuffling,
- snappish,
- snappy,
- testy,
- trichoschistic,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- ultracritical
- artifice,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- collusion,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- covin,
- dodgery,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- fencing,
- foul play,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- logic-chopping,
- machination,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pettifogging,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- sharp practice,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- trickery,
- underhand dealing
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- clock-watching,
- ducking,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- fencing,
- goofing off,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- logic-chopping,
- malingering,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulking,
- slacking,
- soldiering,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tax dodging,
- tax evasion,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- truancy,
- weasel words,
- welshing
- Washingtonese,
- all fours,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- bunkum,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- crawl,
- crawling,
- creep,
- creeping,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- federalese,
- fencing,
- gobbledygook,
- gumshoeing,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- logic-chopping,
- nightwalking,
- nit-picking,
- official jargon,
- officialese,
- padding,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- political doubletalk,
- prevarication,
- prowling,
- quibbling,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- sidling,
- slinking,
- snaking,
- sneaking,
- stealing,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- tiptoeing,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- worming
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- criticism,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- fencing,
- flak,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- knock,
- logic-chopping,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- obloquy,
- overcriticalness,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pestering,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- prevarication,
- priggishness,
- pussyfooting,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slam,
- stricture,
- subterfuge,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- fencing,
- flak,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- knock,
- logic-chopping,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pestering,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- priggishness,
- pussyfooting,
- quibble,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slam,
- stricture,
- subterfuge,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- ultracritical
- evasive
collapse
- deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
- avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action" related words >
- ambiguous,
- amoral,
- bickering,
- cagey,
- captious,
- casuistic,
- caviling,
- choplogic,
- close,
- closemouthed,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- discreet,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- dissembling,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- equivocal,
- equivocating,
- equivocatory,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- intangible,
- logic-chopping,
- malingering,
- misleading,
- nit-picking,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- paltering,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevaricating,
- pussyfooting,
- questionable,
- quibbling,
- rotten,
- secret,
- secretive,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- shirking,
- shuffling,
- sinister,
- sliding,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sophistical,
- suspicious,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- trichoschistic,
- tricky,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- unclear,
- uncommunicative,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vague,
- weasel-worded,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- bickering,
- blague,
- boggling,
- bouncer,
- canard,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- cock-and-bull story,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- distortion,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- exaggeration,
- fairy tale,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsehood,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fencing,
- fib,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- ghost story,
- hairsplitting,
- half-truth,
- hedging,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- logic-chopping,
- mendacity,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pettifoggery,
- pious fiction,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shifting,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slight stretching,
- story,
- straining,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- trumped-up story,
- untruth,
- weasel words,
- white lie,
- yarn
- allowance,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- calculation,
- canniness,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- care,
- careful consideration,
- carefulness,
- caution,
- cautiousness,
- caviling,
- cession,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- circumscription,
- circumspection,
- concession,
- deliberate stages,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- discretion,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- exception,
- exemption,
- extenuating circumstances,
- fencing,
- gingerliness,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- guardedness,
- hairsplitting,
- hedge,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- hesitation,
- judiciousness,
- limitation,
- logic-chopping,
- mental reservation,
- mindfulness,
- modification,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pawkiness,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- prior consultation,
- prudence,
- prudentialness,
- pussyfooting,
- qualification,
- quibbling,
- regardfulness,
- reservation,
- restriction,
- safeness,
- safety first,
- salvo,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slowness to act,
- solicitude,
- special case,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- subterfuge,
- tentativeness,
- tergiversation,
- thoroughness,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unprecipitateness,
- waiver
- trivial
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- obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
- concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind" related words >
- Mickey,
- NG,
- airy,
- ankle-deep,
- asinine,
- base,
- bickering,
- captious,
- casual,
- catchpenny,
- caviling,
- cheap,
- choplogic,
- cursory,
- deficient,
- depthless,
- empty,
- epidermal,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- fatuous,
- few,
- flimsy,
- foolish,
- footling,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- idle,
- imperfect,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- incompetent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- insignificant,
- insufficient,
- jejune,
- junk,
- junky,
- knee-deep,
- light,
- little,
- logic-chopping,
- low,
- maladroit,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- mediocre,
- miniature,
- minor,
- negligible,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- not comparable,
- not deep,
- not in it,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- on the surface,
- otiose,
- out of it,
- paltering,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shabby,
- shallow,
- shallow-rooted,
- shoal,
- shoddy,
- shoestring,
- short,
- shuffling,
- silly,
- skin-deep,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- small-beer,
- superficial,
- surface,
- thin,
- tiny,
- trashy,
- trichoschistic,
- trifling,
- trite,
- unimportant,
- unprofound,
- unskillful,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- windy,
- worthless
- hairsplitting
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- making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously" related words >
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- contradistinction,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- delicate,
- demarcation,
- differentiation,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- distinguishment,
- division,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- fencing,
- finespun,
- flak,
- hairline,
- hedging,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- hypersensitive,
- hypersensitivity,
- imputation,
- knock,
- logic-chopping,
- microscopic distinction,
- morbid sensibility,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nagging,
- nice,
- nice distinction,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nuance,
- obloquy,
- overconscientious,
- overconscientiousness,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- overfastidious,
- overfastidiousness,
- overmeticulous,
- overmeticulousness,
- overnice,
- overniceness,
- overnicety,
- overparticular,
- overparticularity,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overrefinement,
- overscrupulous,
- overscrupulousness,
- oversensitive,
- oversensitivity,
- oversqueamish,
- oversqueamishness,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pestering,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- priggishness,
- pussyfooting,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- refined,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- segregation,
- separation,
- shade of difference,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slam,
- stricture,
- subterfuge,
- subtle,
- subtle distinction,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- ultracritical
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- baseness,
- bickering,
- blind,
- bluff,
- boggling,
- bosey,
- captiousness,
- catch,
- caviling,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chouse,
- collusion,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- degradation,
- design,
- device,
- deviousness,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- dodging,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fencing,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hairsplitting,
- hanky-panky,
- hedging,
- hocus-pocus,
- intrigue,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- knavishness,
- little game,
- logic-chopping,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- moral turpitude,
- move,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- racket,
- rascality,
- rascalry,
- red herring,
- reprobacy,
- roguery,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scampishness,
- scheme,
- scoundrelism,
- scurvy trick,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- sophistry,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- surreptitiousness,
- tactic,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- trick,
- trickery,
- turpitude,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- vileness,
- villainousness,
- villainy,
- wile,
- wily device
- 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 related words >
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- argue,
- argufy,
- around the bush,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bandy words,
- beat about,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- captiousness,
- carp,
- carping,
- catch at straws,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chop logic,
- choplogic,
- contend,
- contest,
- criticism,
- criticize,
- cross swords,
- cut and thrust,
- cut up,
- discept,
- dispute,
- dodge,
- equivocate,
- equivocation,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- evasion,
- exception,
- fault-find,
- faultfinding,
- fence,
- find fault,
- flak,
- give and take,
- hair-splitting,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- have it out,
- hedge,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- jesuitism,
- join issue,
- knock,
- lock horns,
- logomachize,
- moot,
- mystify,
- nagging,
- nicety,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nitpick,
- obloquy,
- obscure,
- overcriticalness,
- palter,
- paltering,
- parry,
- pestering,
- pettifog,
- pettifogging,
- pick holes,
- pick nits,
- pick to pieces,
- plead,
- polemicize,
- polemize,
- prevaricate,
- priggishness,
- pull apart,
- pull to pieces,
- pussyfoot,
- quibbling,
- quiddity,
- quillet,
- quip,
- quirk,
- quodlibet,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- slam,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- spar,
- split hairs,
- squabble,
- stricture,
- subtlety,
- swipe,
- take exception,
- take sides,
- taking exception,
- tear apart,
- tear to pieces,
- tergiversate,
- thrash out,
- trichoschistism,
- try conclusions,
- wrangle
- Mickey Mouse,
- airy,
- asinine,
- banal,
- bickering,
- brimful,
- brimming,
- captious,
- catchpenny,
- caviling,
- chic,
- chipper,
- chitchat,
- chitter-chatter,
- choplogic,
- classy,
- commonplace,
- coquetry,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- cursory,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dashing,
- dawdling,
- depthless,
- dillydallying,
- dolce far niente,
- empty,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- fashionable,
- fatuous,
- few,
- fiddling,
- flimsy,
- flirtation,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- foolish,
- footling,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- goofing off,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hollow,
- idle,
- idling,
- inane,
- incidental,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- insignificant,
- insipid,
- jammed,
- jejune,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lazing,
- light,
- lingering,
- little,
- loaded,
- loafing,
- logic-chopping,
- loitering,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- low,
- meager,
- measly,
- messing around,
- miniature,
- minor,
- modish,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- mopery,
- neat,
- negligible,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- orderly,
- otiose,
- packed,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puny,
- pussyfooting,
- puttering,
- quibbling,
- shallow,
- sharp,
- shipshape,
- short,
- shuffling,
- silly,
- skin-deep,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- smart,
- smattering,
- snappy,
- snug,
- spick-and-span,
- superficial,
- swank,
- tarrying,
- tidy,
- tinkering,
- tiny,
- toying,
- trichoschistic,
- trig,
- trim,
- trite,
- trivial,
- uncluttered,
- unimportant,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- well-groomed,
- windy,
- worthless
- Kilkenny cats,
- aflicker,
- aggressive,
- aggressiveness,
- altercation,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- bellicose,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- belligerent,
- bicker,
- blinking,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- cat-and-dog life,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- combat,
- combative,
- combativeness,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestation,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- dancing,
- debate,
- defense,
- disputation,
- disputatious,
- dispute,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- divisive,
- dodging,
- embroilment,
- enmity,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- eristic,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- faction,
- factional,
- factious,
- factiousness,
- fencing,
- fighting,
- flak,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- flyting,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- hedging,
- hostility,
- hubbub,
- infighting,
- irascibility,
- irascible,
- irritability,
- irritable,
- lambent,
- litigation,
- litigious,
- litigiousness,
- logic-chopping,
- logomachy,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- paper war,
- parrying,
- partisan,
- partisan spirit,
- partisanship,
- passage of arms,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- playing,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- prevarication,
- pugnacious,
- pugnacity,
- pussyfooting,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsome,
- quarrelsomeness,
- quibbling,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rhubarb,
- row,
- run-in,
- scrapping,
- set-to,
- shifting,
- shrewish,
- shrewishness,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- spat,
- squabble,
- squabbling,
- strife,
- stroboscopic,
- struggle,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- verbal engagement,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- words,
- wrangle,
- wrangling
- equivocation
collapse
- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- intentionally vague or ambiguous related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- apparent soundness,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circularity,
- circumvention,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- counterword,
- defense mechanism,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double,
- double entendre,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivoque,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasive reasoning,
- evasiveness,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- fencing,
- fluctuation,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- insincerity,
- irony,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- jink,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- misapplication,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- mystification,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oscillation,
- oversubtlety,
- oxymoron,
- paltering,
- paradox,
- parrying,
- pendulation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pettifoggery,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- pun,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- self-contradiction,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squinting construction,
- straining,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the runaround,
- trichoschistism,
- vacillation,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wavering,
- weasel word,
- weasel words,
- wobbling,
- zigzag
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bickering,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- captious,
- caviling,
- cent,
- choplogic,
- curio,
- cursory,
- depthless,
- detailed,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- exact,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- few,
- fig,
- finicky,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- footling,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- full,
- fussy,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- hairsplitting,
- halfpenny,
- hedging,
- hill of beans,
- immateriality,
- inconsequence,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsequentiality,
- inconsiderable,
- inconsiderableness,
- indifference,
- ineffectuality,
- inferiority,
- insignificance,
- insignificant,
- irrelevance,
- jerkwater,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- little,
- littleness,
- logic-chopping,
- low,
- low priority,
- marginality,
- meager,
- measly,
- meticulous,
- miniature,
- minikin,
- minute,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- negligibility,
- negligible,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- one-horse,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- particular,
- peppercorn,
- pettifogging,
- pettiness,
- petty,
- picayunish,
- picayunishness,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pokiness,
- poky,
- precise,
- puniness,
- punk,
- puny,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- red cent,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- secondariness,
- shallow,
- shit,
- short,
- shuffling,
- skin-deep,
- slightness,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallness,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- special,
- specific,
- straw,
- superficial,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- toy,
- trichoschistic,
- trifle,
- trifling,
- trinket,
- trivial,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- twopence,
- unimportance,
- unimpressiveness,
- unnoteworthiness,
- whim-wham
- evasion
collapse
- the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
- the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth related words >
- abstention,
- airtight secrecy,
- anythingarianism,
- artifice,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- break,
- breakout,
- buck-passing,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circumvention,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- concealment,
- cop-out,
- cringe,
- crypticness,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deception,
- defense mechanism,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double-talk,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- emergence,
- equivocating,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- escapism,
- eschewal,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- excuse,
- extrication,
- fallback,
- fence-sitting,
- fencing,
- flight,
- flinch,
- foiling,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- freeing,
- frustration,
- fudging,
- getaway,
- getting around,
- getting round,
- haggling,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hiddenness,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- impartiality,
- independence,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- jink,
- leak,
- leakage,
- liberation,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonalignment,
- noncommitment,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nonpartisanism,
- nothingarianism,
- outguessing,
- outlet,
- outmaneuvering,
- outwitting,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- passing the buck,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- prisonbreak,
- pullback,
- pullout,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- recoil,
- refraining,
- release,
- rescue,
- retreat,
- riddance,
- runaround,
- secrecy,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- setting-free,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophistry,
- strict neutrality,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the dark,
- the runaround,
- the slip,
- thwarting,
- trichoschistism,
- trickery,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vent,
- weasel words,
- wince,
- zigzag
- petty
collapse
- contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" related words >
- Mickey Mouse,
- abject,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- authoritarian,
- base,
- beggarly,
- bickering,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- borne,
- captious,
- casual,
- caviling,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- choplogic,
- close,
- closed,
- constricted,
- contemptible,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- crummy,
- cursory,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- debased,
- deficient,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- depthless,
- despicable,
- dinky,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- execrable,
- fanatical,
- few,
- flagrant,
- footling,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- gross,
- grudging,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- heinous,
- hidebound,
- illiberal,
- imperfect,
- impertinent,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- inessential,
- inferior,
- insignificant,
- insufficient,
- insular,
- irrelevant,
- jerkwater,
- light,
- little,
- little-minded,
- logic-chopping,
- low,
- low-down,
- lumpen,
- maladroit,
- mangy,
- meager,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- measly,
- mediocre,
- mingy,
- miniature,
- minor,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- monstrous,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- nearsighted,
- nefarious,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- not comparable,
- not in it,
- nugatory,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- of no account,
- one-horse,
- out of it,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- parochial,
- parsimonious,
- peanut,
- peddling,
- pettifogging,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pimping,
- poky,
- poor,
- provincial,
- punk,
- puny,
- purblind,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rank,
- reptilian,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shallow,
- shoddy,
- shoestring,
- short,
- shortsighted,
- shuffling,
- skin-deep,
- slight,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-minded,
- small-time,
- squalid,
- stingy,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- trichoschistic,
- trifling,
- trinal,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- unchivalrous,
- unconsidered,
- ungenerous,
- unimportant,
- unliberal,
- unmentionable,
- unskillful,
- vile,
- wretched
- Micawberish,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- alternation,
- ambling,
- amorphous,
- backward,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- capricious,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- cautious,
- caviling,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- convulsion,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- dallying,
- delaying,
- deliberate,
- derangement,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dilatory,
- dillydallying,
- disarrangement,
- discomposure,
- dislocation,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disturbance,
- dizzy,
- dodging,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- eccentric,
- equivocating,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- erratic,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- faltering,
- fast and loose,
- fencing,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flagging,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fluctuation,
- foot-dragging,
- freakish,
- gentle,
- giddy,
- gradual,
- hairsplitting,
- halting,
- hedging,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indolent,
- infirm,
- insanity,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- lackadaisical,
- laggard,
- lagging,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lax,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lingering,
- logic-chopping,
- loitering,
- lumbering,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- misarrangement,
- moderate,
- moody,
- nit-picking,
- oscillation,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pendulation,
- perturbation,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- poking,
- poky,
- prevarication,
- procrastinating,
- procrastinative,
- procrastinatory,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rambling,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- remiss,
- restless,
- roving,
- sauntering,
- scatterbrained,
- seesawing,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- sidestepping,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- subterfuge,
- teeter-tottering,
- teetering,
- tentative,
- tergiversation,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unhurried,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vacillation,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- variation,
- vicissitude,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- waddling,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy
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