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Verb
Adverb
Adjective

end run

toe-dance

keep one's head down

skate over

nonconfrontation

keep at arm's length

circumlocutionary

shadowbox

escape

toe dance

resistless

unresisting

take the bull by the horns

change the subject

let bygones be bygones

shy away from

keep one's cards close to one's chest

above the fray

tread lightly

obviate

let-out

throw in at the deep end

deflect

have someone by the short hairs

finesse

ostracize

tiptoe around

step to

ostracise

reindeer games

detachment

prod

goad

spurring

wear

prodding

talk one's way out of

air out

get out of someone's face

spur

goading

withdrawal

urging

nonconfronter

heckle

can't help

passive-aggressive

let someone down gently

hedge

bring a knife to a gunfight

avoidant

antipsychological

tactfulness

allow

let

permit

walk on eggshells

low profile

gut up

intervene

nut up

stand tall

drop the gloves

fight shy of

draw into

evasive

take the wheel

nonconfrontational

box out

deke

put off

pre-emptive

inconspicuously

shunning

bunker

keep it together

diplomatic

fudge

sidestep

antipolitics

give the go-by

circumvent

leeroy

avoidance

anticonfrontational

evade

self-handicap

paper over the cracks

parry

skirt

turning away

dodging

dodge

elude

diversion

duck

end run

toe-dance

nonconfrontation

escape

toe dance

let-out

reindeer games

detachment

prod

goad

spurring

prodding

spur

goading

withdrawal

urging

nonconfronter

tactfulness

low profile

shunning

antipolitics

avoidance

turning away

dodging

diversion

keep one's head down

skate over

keep at arm's length

shadowbox

toe-dance

take the bull by the horns

change the subject

let bygones be bygones

shy away from

keep one's cards close to one's chest

tread lightly

obviate

throw in at the deep end

deflect

have someone by the short hairs

finesse

ostracize

tiptoe around

step to

ostracise

wear

talk one's way out of

air out

get out of someone's face

heckle

can't help

let someone down gently

hedge

bring a knife to a gunfight

allow

let

permit

walk on eggshells

gut up

intervene

nut up

stand tall

drop the gloves

fight shy of

draw into

take the wheel

box out

deke

put off

bunker

keep it together

fudge

sidestep

give the go-by

circumvent

leeroy

evade

self-handicap

paper over the cracks

parry

skirt

dodge

elude

duck

English words for 'An attempt to avoid a difficult situation by not confronting it directly'

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