Antonyms for runaround
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ruhn-uh-round |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrʌn əˌraʊnd |
- advance
- arrival
- artlessness
- capture
- certainty
- challenge
- clarity
- coming
- continuation
- directness
- entrance
- facing
- fact
- forthrightness
- frankness
- honesty
- honor
- ignorance
- inability
- incapability
- ineptness
- maintenance
- meeting
- naivety
- openness
- reality
- sincerity
- stay
- staying
- stupidity
- surety
- trustworthiness
- truth
- truthfulness
- uprightness
Definition of runaround
Origin :- also run-around, "deceptive, evasive treatment," 1915, from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + around (adv.).
- As in avoidance : noun eluding; preventing
- As in run-around : noun avoidance
- As in tergiversation : noun equivocation
- As in detour : noun indirect course
- As in equivocation : noun avoidance of an issue
- As in escape : noun breaking away; getaway
- As in evasion : noun escape, avoidance
- As in finesse : noun know-how, maneuver
- As in guile : noun slyness, cleverness
- Pembroke watched him hurry off to service a car with a sense of having been given the runaround.
- Extract from : « The Perfectionists » by Arnold Castle
Synonyms for runaround
- abdication
- absention
- acumen
- adeptness
- adroitness
- alternate route
- ambiguity
- amphibology
- artfulness
- artifice
- avoidance
- AWOL
- back road
- beat
- big stick
- bluff
- bolt
- branch
- break
- breakout
- bypass
- bypassing
- bypath
- byway
- casuistry
- chicanery
- circuit
- circuitous route
- circumbendibus
- circumnavigation
- circumvention
- cleverness
- coloring
- come-off
- competence
- con
- cop out
- cop-out
- cover
- cover-up
- craft
- craftiness
- crotch
- cunning
- decampment
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delay
- delicacy
- deliverance
- delusion
- departure
- desertion
- detour
- deviation
- difficulty
- diplomacy
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- disappearance
- discernment
- discretion
- dishonesty
- dissemblance
- dissimulation
- distortion
- ditch
- divergence
- diversion
- dodge
- dodging
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- double-cross
- doubtfulness
- ducking
- duplicity
- elopement
- elusion
- elusiveness
- equivocality
- equivocating
- equivocation
- equivoque
- escape
- escaping
- escapism
- eschewal
- euphemism
- evading
- evasion
- evasiveness
- excuse
- extrication
- fadeout
- fallacy
- fancy footwork
- feint
- fib
- fibbing
- flight
- forbearance
- fork
- foul play
- freedom
- fudging
- fugiviteness
- fugivity
- gimmick
- grift
- guile
- hedge
- hedging
- hegira
- inertia
- jive
- lam
- leave
- liberation
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- nonparticipation
- obliqueness
- out
- outbreak
- parry
- passive resistance
- polish
- postponement
- powder
- pretext
- prevarication
- prevention
- quibble
- quibbling routine
- quickness
- racket
- recession
- recoil
- release
- rescue
- restraint
- retreat
- roundabout
- roundabout way
- routine
- run-around
- runaround
- ruse
- savoir-faire
- savvy
- secondary highway
- self-restraint
- sellout
- service road
- sharp practice
- shift
- shirking
- shuffle
- shuffling
- shunning
- sidestepping
- skill
- slip
- song
- song and dance
- sophism
- sophistication
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spring
- spuriousness
- stab in the back
- stall
- steering clear of
- stonewall
- stratagem
- substitute
- subterfuge
- subtlety
- tact
- temporary route
- tergiversation
- treachery
- trick
- trickery
- trickiness
- waffle
- weasel word
- wile
- wiliness
- withdrawal
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