beat around the bush
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
to be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
MWEWordset Dictionary
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- tergiversate
- pasttense
- beated around the bush
- presentparticiple
- beating around the bush
- thirdpersonsingular
- beats around the bush
- pastparticiple
- beated around the bush