shuffle

shuffle
v
1. shamble, scuff the feet, scrape, scrape along; drag, lag, linger, falter, flag; hobble, limp, hitch, scuttle.
2. hedge, equivocate, evade, elude, Inf. waffle; dodge, fence, shift, shy, parry; quibble, pettifog, beg the question, split hairs, beat around the bush; mislead, throw off the scent or trail, draw a red herring across the trail; distort, pervert, mince the truth, color, gloss over, refine, whitewash, clean up; lie, prevaricate, cavil.
3. intermix, interfile, intersperse, interchange; shift, shift about, shift around; tangle, entangle, jumble; mess, muss, clutter, litter, strew about; scatter, turn upside-down, turn topsy-turvy; disarrange, disorganize, discompose, displace; upset, dishevel, complicate, Inf. screw up, botch, muddle, Sl. muck up.
4. shuffle off
a. thrust aside, put aside, cast aside; get rid of, discard, trade off.b. drag off, move slowly, move reluctantly; inch away, drag one's heels, Inf. mosey along.
n
5. dragging gait, limp, hobble, hitch, stagger, toddle.
6. evasion, evasive, trick, blind, guise, artifice, subterfuge; dodge, side-step, shift, feint, circumlocution, ruse; cloak, mask, sham, pretext, subtlety; prevarication, fib, white lie, distortion of the facts, circumvention; ambiguity, quirk, Jesuitism, quibble, verbal retreat, backing down, reneging, Sl. welshing.

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