Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- 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
Related Words:
- weasel word
collapse - an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion related words >
- fencing
collapse
- 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
- 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
- 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
- hairsplitting
collapse
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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