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  • 101equivocation — Synonyms and related words: ambiguity, ambivalence, amphibology, antinomy, apparent soundness, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, captiousness, casuistry, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circularity, circumvention, coloring,… …

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  • 102evasion — Synonyms and related words: abstention, airtight secrecy, anythingarianism, artifice, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, break, breakout, buck passing, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, close secrecy,… …

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  • 103evasive — Synonyms and related words: ambiguous, amoral, bickering, cagey, captious, casuistic, caviling, choplogic, close, closemouthed, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, devious, discreet, dishonest,… …

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  • 104exception — Synonyms and related words: abjuration, abjurement, abnormality, adverse criticism, allowance, amazement, animadversion, anomaly, answer, argument, aspersion, astonishing thing, astonishment, bad notices, bad press, ban, bar, barring, beef, bitch …

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  • 105fault-finding — Synonyms and related words: captious, captiousness, carping, cavilling, censorious, censure, contentious, critical, criticism, fussiness, fussy, hair splitting, hypercritical, hypercriticism, niggling, nit picking, pettifogging, picky, querulous …

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  • 106faultfinding — Synonyms and related words: Jeremianic, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, complaining,… …

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  • 107fencing — Synonyms and related words: bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, hairsplitting, hedging, logic chopping, nit picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting,… …

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  • 108flak — Synonyms and related words: abuse, adverse criticism, aggressiveness, animadversion, antiaircraft fire, artillery, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, battery, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, blame, cannon, cannonry, captiousness, carping,… …

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  • 109gobbledegook — Synonyms and related words: balderdash, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, circumlocution, crap, deception, deceptiveness, double talk, drivel, equivocation, eyewash, garbage, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, humbug, jargon, malarkey, moonshine, mumbo… …

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  • 110hairsplitting — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, contradistinction, critical,… …

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