Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb beat_around_the_bush

1 sense of beat around the bush

Sense 1
beat around the bush, equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter -- (be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information)
       => misinform, mislead -- (give false or misleading information to)