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run-around

Main Entry:
run-around
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: avoidance
Synonyms: come-off, delay, detour, difficulty, diversion, elusion, escape, escaping, eschewal, evasion, inertia, postponement, roundabout, shunning
Antonyms: challenge, facing, meeting
Main Entry: equivocation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: avoidance of an issue
Synonyms: ambiguity, amphibology, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, dissimulation, distortion, double entendre, double meaning, double talk, doubtfulness, duplicity, equivocality, evasion, fallacy, fib, fibbing, hedging, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, quibbling routine, run-around, shuffling, song and dance, song*, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, stall, stonewall, tergiversation, waffle
Antonyms: directness, facing, meeting
Main Entry: evasion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: escape, avoidance
Synonyms: artifice, circumvention, cop-out, cunning, ditch*, dodge*, dodging, elusion, equivocating, equivocation, eschewal, evading, evasiveness, excuse, fancy footwork, fudging, fugiviteness, fugivity, jive, lie, obliqueness, pretext, prevarication, quibble, routine, run-around, ruse, shift, shirking, shuffling, shunning, slip*, sophism, sophistry, stall, stonewall, subterfuge, trick, trickery
Antonyms: directness, facing, meeting
Main Entry: finesse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: know-how, maneuver
Synonyms: acumen, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, big stick, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket, run-around, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile
Antonyms: ignorance
Main Entry: guile
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: slyness, cleverness
Synonyms: artfulness, artifice, chicanery, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-cross, duplicity, foul play, jive, run-around, ruse, sellout, sharp practice, stab in the back, treachery, trickery, trickiness, wiliness
Antonyms: artlessness, frankness, honesty, naivety, openness, sincerity
Main Entry: tergiversation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: equivocation
Synonyms: ambiguity, amphibology, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, dissimulation, distortion, double entendre, double meaning, double talk, doubtfulness, duplicity, equivocality, equivoque, euphemism, evasion, fallacy, fib, fibbing, hedge, hedging, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, quibbling routine, run-around, shuffle, shuffling, song and dance, song*, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, stall, stonewall, waffle, weasel word
Related Words
Main Entry: evasion
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
avoiding, elusive, escaped, escaping, evasive, fugitive, lucifugous, neutral, runaway, shy, unattempted, unsought, wild
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Absence of pursuit] Avoidance.
Category: 1. Conceptional volition
Synonyms:
-nouns
abstention, abstinence; forbearance; refraining; inaction; neutrality., avoidance, evasion, elusion; seclusion., avolation, flight; escape; retreat; recoil; departure; rejection., shirker; truant; fugitive, refugee; runaway, runagate; maroon.
-verbs
abstain, refrain, spare, not attempt; not do; maintain the even tenor of one's way., eschew, keep from, let alone, have nothing to do with; keep aloof, keep off, stand aloof, stand off, hold aloof, hold off; take no part in, have no hand in., avoid, shun; steer clear of, keep clear of; fight shy of; keep one's distance, keep at a respectful distance; keep out of the way, get out of the way; evade, elude, turn away from; set one's face against (oppose) [more]; deny oneself., shrink back; hang back, hold back, draw back; recoil; retire (recede); flinch, blink, blench, shy, shirk, dodge, parry, make way for, give place to., beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedadle, absquatulate [U.S.], cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away (depart); abandon; reject., lead one a dance, lead one a pretty dance; throw off the scent, play at hide and seek.
-adjectives
unsought, unattempted; avoiding; neutral, shy of (unwilling) [more]; elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild., lest, in order to avoid.
-phrases
"things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme" [Paradise Lost].
Antonyms: pursuit
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Tergiversation.
Category: 1. Acts of volition
Synonyms:
-nouns
change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose; afterthought., tergiversation, recantation; palinode, palinody; renunciation; abjuration, abjurement; defection (relinquishment); going over; apostasy; retraction, retractation; withdrawal; disavowal (negation); revocation, revokement; reversal; repentance; redintegratio amoris., coquetry; vacillation; backsliding; volte-face., turncoat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish [U.S.], scab, mugwump [U.S.], recidivist., time server, time pleaser; timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter; weathercock (changeable); Janus.
-verbs
change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from (relinquish); waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack; do a 360., apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish [U.S.], crawl [U.S.]., draw in one's borns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back to one's first love, return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf (repent)., trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.
-adjectives
changeful; irresolute; ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving; coquetting; revocatory, reactionary.
-phrases
"a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron].
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