ostracise
ostracize
shirk
keep at arm's length
nonconfrontation
gag
muzzle
hedge
don't get someone started
bite one's tongue
antisocial
hold one's tongue
bite one's lip
silence
get off of someone's cloud
keep mum
give the go-by
antipolitics
unmentionable
drop
anticonfrontational
send away
send packing
stonewall
dismiss
leave alone
anticontact
put someone on ice
end run
evasive
skate over
draw a veil over
discretion is the better part of valour
hold one's peace
antiverbal
at arm's length
chat
bat away
zip one's lip
iggy
avoid
fight shy
argue round and round
cede the field
hold
unprompted
umlessness
deflect
keep one's distance
cone of silence
talk at
shadowbox
borrow
break in
avoidant
talk one's way out of
silent treatment
circumvent
skirt
put off
beat around the bush
gestural
sidestep
elude
nonverbal
withdrawal
mince words
duck
fudge
chit-chat
detachment
evade
talk down
dodge
parry
sealion
dry up
ignore
go there
er
blah blah blah
toe dance
let bygones be bygones
button
countersubversion
cagey
diplomatic
guard one's tongue
nondenunciation
keep one's head down
para-
telephobia
conversationlessness
toe-dance
avoidability
inarticulate
unarticulate

English words for 'avoid speaking to or dealing with'

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