beat around the bush
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Types & categories
- misinform hypernym
Related & opposite
- tergiversation derivation
- lying derivation
- fibbing derivation
- evasiveness derivation
- prevarication derivation
- evasion derivation
- hedger derivation
- liar derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tergiversation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lying |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fibbing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | evasiveness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | prevarication |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | evasion |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hedger |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | liar |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | misinform |