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apostatize collapse: abandon one's beliefs or allegiances

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

backslide collapse

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

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"

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

come round collapse: change one's position or opinion; "He came around to our point of view"

pussyfoot collapse

equivocate 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

vacillate collapse

bicker collapse: a quarrel about petty points

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"

repudiate collapse: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"; reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations"; refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt"

wobble collapse: an unsteady rocking motion; move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street"

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