Washingtonese, all fours, bickering, boggling, bunkum, captious, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive, federalese, fencing, gobbledygook, gumshoeing, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, nightwalking, nit-picking, official jargon, officialese, padding, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, petty, picayune, political doubletalk, prevarication, prowling, quibbling, scrabble, scramble, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, sidling, slinking, snaking, sneaking, stealing, subterfuge, tergiversation, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, worming