bickering
boggling
captiousness
caviling
chicane
chicanery
dodging
equivocation
evasion
fencing
hairsplitting
hedging
logic-chopping
nit-picking
paltering
pettifoggery
prevarication
pussyfooting
quibbling
shifting
shuffle
shuffling
sidestepping
subterfuge
suppressio veri
tergiversation
trichoschistism
weasel words
clubman
fiddle-bow
horsewoman
humouring
inkhorn
introgression
lacery
lead-in
lightning rod
misjudgments
mistis
money
painlessness
pairings
putdown
recross
reframing
showmanship
shuttlecock
stage-setting
surfboard
thick-witted
uppishness
vacuum cleaner
war-machine