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“That's why I respect him so much - he gave an honest answer, rather than trying to fudge up data to support his desires, as do many, many figures on both the left and the right.”

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Present participle for deliberately avoiding providing a clear answer or statement

weaseling^US

weaselling^UK

falsifying

mincing words

parrying questions

shifting ground about

copping out

humming and hawing

patching up

beating about the bush

evading the issue

sitting on the fence

beating around the bush

temporizing^US

temporising^UK

sidestepping the issue

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

giving the run around

hedging one's bets

playing it close to the vest

balking^US

giving a false colour to

baulking^UK

beating about the bush about

giving someone the slip

moving

malingering

moving away

slipping through the net of

giving someone a wide berth

giving a wide berth to

using delaying tactics

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

avoiding committing oneself

playing a waiting game

avoiding making a decision

taking your time

using Fabian tactics

kicking the can down the road

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“Trying to fudge the issue will only invite China's bullying and eventual invasion.”

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Present participle for to use underhanded methods to achieve a goal

victimizing^US

chiselling^UK

chiseling^US

victimising^UK

pulling a fast one on

bending the rules

pulling something funny

stretching the rules

stacking the cards

hitting below the belt

pulling a fast one on someone

selling a pup to

framing

taking someone for a ride

doing out of

putting one over on someone

taking to the cleaners

selling a bill of goods

selling down the river

giving someone a bum steer

leading up the garden path

getting the better of

selling a bill of goods to

stealing a march on

making rings round

doing someone in the eye

pulling the wool over somebody's eyes

selling someone down the river

going one better than

taking to the cleaner's

biasing^US

biassing^UK

pulling the wool over one's eyes

leading one down the garden path

pulling someone's leg

twisting around your little finger

overcoming

besting

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Present participle for deliberately avoiding providing a clear answer or statement

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Present participle for to exaggerate, use hyperbole

colouring^UK

coloring^US

emphasising^UK

emphasizing^US

blowing out of proportion

blowing up out of proportion

dramatizing^US

dramatising^UK

making a mountain out of a molehill

blowing up out of all proportion

making a federal case of

making a production out of

making too much of

playing up

making a big thing out of

making a mountain out of

making mountain of molehill

laying it on thick about

laying it on with a shovel

laying it on with a trowel

blowing something out of all proportion

making a big thing of

spreading on thick

exaggerating information

making federal case

dressing up

making mountain out of molehill

going into detail about

making a drama out of a crisis

laying it on with a trowel about

emphasizing too much

interlarding

expanding on

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Present participle for to completely bungle (an opportunity)

making a dog's dinner of

balling up

making a pig's ear of

putting a spanner in the works

doing something badly

getting something wrong

putting your foot in it

putting someone off their stride

falling flat on face with

raveling^US

throwing into disorder

entangling

jumbling up

getting into a tangle

ravelling^UK

making a dog's breakfast

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Present participle for to give someone the wrong information or idea

victimising^UK

victimizing^US

putting on false front

taking for a ride

giving the wrong impression

giving wrong information to

leading one down the garden path

leading up the garden path

playing trick on

pulling a fast one on

pulling a swifty on

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

pulling wool over eyes

putting on the wrong track

putting up smoke screen

taking someone for a ride

taking someone in

giving someone a bum steer

leading up garden path

pulling the wool over one's eyes

pulling the wool over somebody's eyes

throwing off the scent

sending on a wild goose chase

wrong steering

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Present participle for to make more beautiful or attractive by adorning or decorating

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Present participle for to make a false show or pretence of

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Present participle for to tell an untruth or falsehood

departing from the truth

bearing false witness

not telling the truth

perjuring oneself

putting on the wrong track

saying something untrue

telling untruths

throwing off the scent

sending on a wild goose chase

telling a terminological inexactitude

Noun

The action of evading something

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Noun

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The state of hesitating or being uncertain

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

temporising^UK

temporizing^US

beating about the bush

qualifying expression

sidestepping the issue

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Noun

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The act of giving an appearance to something of which it is not

coloring^US

colouring^UK

pretence^UK

pretense^US

figment of the imagination

porky pie

fairy story

departure from the truth

terminological inexactitude

rumour^UK

economy with the truth

rumor^US

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Noun

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A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling

overgeneral reasoning

use of fallacious arguments

wrong end of the stick

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