Runaround

Synonyms for "runaround" (44 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (9)

avoidance avoiding reaction buck-passing circumvention defense mechanism detour dodge duck elusion

Strong matches (13)

elusiveness equivocation escape eschewal evasion evasive action evasiveness foiling forbearance forestalling forestallment frustration getting around

Related words (22)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

derived

2 entries

get the runaround give somebody the runaround

derived from

1 entries

run around

etymologically related_to

1 entries

run around

has context

1 entries

printing

is a

1 entries

television show

related to

11 entries

bone bypass column detour evasive excuse explanation fingernail route type whitlow

Translations

8 translations across 5 languages.

Bulgarian

1 entries

увъртане noun (evasive explanation)

German

2 entries

Ausweichen noun (evasive explanation)
ausweichende Antwort noun (evasive explanation)

Portuguese

1 entries

enrolação noun (evasive explanation)

Russian

3 entries

волокита noun (evasive explanation)
отговорки noun (evasive explanation)
увиливание от ответа noun (evasive explanation)

Spanish

1 entries

dar largas noun (evasive explanation)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I get the feeling I'm being given the runaround.

Source: tatoeba (327415)

I'm just getting the runaround.

Source: tatoeba (5730849)

I called them to find out what had happened to my parcel, but all I got was a runaround.

Source: wiktionary

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