Thesaurus / runaround
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They’d spoken personally before, and she was tired of getting the runaround.
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER AT PEARL HARBOR—AND IT’S MAKING KIDS SICKHALEY BRITZKY/TASK & PURPOSEJANUARY 8, 2022POPULAR-SCIENCEPembroke watched him hurry off to service a car with a sense of having been given the runaround.
THE PERFECTIONISTSARNOLD CASTLEHis reply to that, according to your exhibits, was that they would simply give him the same runaround again.
WARREN COMMISSION (11 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. XI (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDYWORDS RELATED TO RUNAROUND
- artifice
- circumvention
- come-off
- cop-out
- cunning
- ditch
- dodge
- dodging
- elusion
- equivocating
- equivocation
- eschewal
- evading
- evasiveness
- excuse
- fancy footwork
- fugiviteness
- fugivity
- jive
- lie
- obliqueness
- pretext
- prevarication
- quibble
- routine
- runaround
- ruse
- shift
- shirking
- shuffling
- shunning
- slip
- sophism
- sophistry
- stall
- stonewall
- subterfuge
- trick
- trickery
- ambiguity
- amphiboly
- 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
- runaround
- shuffle
- shuffling
- song
- song and dance
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- stonewall
- waffle
- weasel word
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