beat around the bush
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MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- tergiversate
- pasttense
- beated around the bush
- presentparticiple
- beating around the bush
- thirdpersonsingular
- beats around the bush
- pastparticiple
- beated around the bush
Framework definitions
- §1
- to be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
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