| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. Informal. To use evasive or deliberately vague language: equivocate, euphemize, hedge, shuffle, tergiversate, weasel. Informal : waffle. Idioms: beat about (or around) the bush, mince words. See CLEAR. 2. To move silently and furtively: creep, glide, lurk, mouse, prowl, skulk, slide, slink, slip, snake, sneak, steal. Slang : gumshoe. See MOVE.
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