circumlocute
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circumlocute — circumlocūteˈ intransitive verb To use circumlocution • • • Main Entry: ↑circumlocution … Useful english dictionary
beat around the bush — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, around the bush, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, circumlocute, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, go round about, hedge, hem and haw,… … Moby Thesaurus
avoid — [v] refrain or stay away from; prevent abstain, avert, bypass, circumlocute, circumvent, deflect, desist, ditch, divert, dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, fake out*, fend off, flee, give the slip*, hide, hold off, jump, keep clear, lay… … New thesaurus
digress — [v] stray, deviate aberrate, beat about the bush*, be diffuse, circumlocute, depart, divagate, drift, excurse, get off the point, get off the subject, get sidetracked, go by way of*, go off on a tangent*, long way*, meander, ramble, roam, swerve … New thesaurus
divert — [v1] turn a different direction alter, avert, change, deflect, modify, pivot, redirect, sheer, swerve, switch, turn aside, veer, volte face, wheel, whip, whirl; concepts 187,213 Ant. be direct, keep to, maintain, stay divert [v2] amuse, entertain … New thesaurus
dodge — [n] trick, feint contrivance, device, machination, method, plan, plot, ploy, ruse, scheme, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, wile; concept 660 dodge [v] avoid circumlocute, dark, deceive, ditch, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, evade, fence, fend… … New thesaurus
stray — [adj] abandoned, wandering devious, erratic, homeless, lost, roaming, roving, vagrant; concept 583 stray [v1] deviate, err circumlocute, depart, digress, divagate, diverge, do wrong, excurse, get off the subject*, get off the track*, get… … New thesaurus
wander — [v1] move about aimlessly aberrate, amble, circumambulate, circumlocute, circumnutate, cruise, deviate, divagate, diverge, drift, float, follow one’s nose*, gad*, gallivant*, globe trot, hike, hopscotch*, jaunt, maunder, meander, peregrinate,… … New thesaurus
