artifice
bickering
boggling
captiousness
caviling
chicane
chicanery
collusion
connivance
connivery
conspiracy
covin
dodgery
dodging
equivocation
evasion
fencing
foul play
fuss
hairsplitting
hedging
logic-chopping
machination
nit-picking
paltering
parrying
pettifogging
prevarication
pussyfooting
quibble
quibbles
quibbling
sharp practice
shifting
shuffling
sidestepping
skulduggery
sleight
spat
squabble
subterfuge
supercherie
tergiversation
tiff
trichoschistism
trickery
underhand dealing
dustup
quarrel
row
run-in
words
wrangle