All hedging synonyms
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H h noun hedging
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- runaround — indecisive or evasive treatment, especially in response to a request: Ask for a raise and he'll give you the runaround.
- deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- run around — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- evasion — The action of evading something.
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
- shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
- tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed