paltering
21logic chopping — Synonyms and related words: bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive, fencing, hairsplitting, hedging, nit picking, paltering, parrying,… …
22mendacious — Synonyms and related words: deceitful, dishonest, equivocal, equivocating, erroneous, fallacious, FALSE, fibbing, forsworn, knavish, lying, paltering, perjured, prevaricating, roguish, shifty, spurious, truthless, untruthful, unveracious, wrong …
23nit picking — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, criticism, dodging, equivocation, evasion, exception …
24parrying — Synonyms and related words: bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, hairsplitting, hedging, logic chopping, nit picking, paltering, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting,… …
25pettifoggery — Synonyms and related words: artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play, hairsplitting, hedging, logic …
26petty — Synonyms and related words: Mickey Mouse, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, authoritarian, base, beggarly, bickering, bigot, bigoted, borne, captious, casual, caviling, cheap, cheesy, choplogic, close, closed, constricted, contemptible,… …
27picayune — Synonyms and related words: a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bickering, bit, brass farthing, button, captious, caviling, cent, choplogic, curio, cursory, depthless, detailed, equivocatory, evasive …
28prevarication — Synonyms and related words: bickering, blague, boggling, bouncer, canard, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, cock and bull story, coloring, confabulation, distortion, dodging, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, fairy tale, false… …
29pussyfooting — Synonyms and related words: Washingtonese, all fours, bickering, boggling, bunkum, captious, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive,… …
30quibble — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, argue, argufy, around the bush, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bandy words, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, captiousness, carp, carping, catch at straws, cavil,… …
