stonewall
/ˈstəʊnwɔːl/
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American sound/ˈstəʊnwɔːl/
stonewall
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- 2 syllables
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sto - ne - wall -> stonewall
Myanmar meaning
ရှောင်လွှဲသည့် အဖြေများဖြင့် (ဆွေးနွေးပွဲ ၊ စူးစမ်းမှုကို ) ပိတ်ဆို့တားဆီးသည်။ သတိထားလွန်းစွာဖြင့် ဘောလုံးကို ရိုက်သည်။
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- ‘The letter asserted that the board had stonewalled the waiting-list members.’
- ‘But when state prosecutors stonewalled the case, the Justice Department flatly refused to bring charges.’
- ‘I don't have experience with the government stonewalling me at all.’
- ‘I was trying to explain to them that I needed the money but they were stonewalling me.’
- ‘All questions were to be stonewalled, on the logical grounds that any comment would prejudice the judicial inquiry set to be announced by the Ministry of Defence.’
- ‘If you try to phone them, the line may go dead; if you get through you are stonewalled.’
- ‘But even a good question can be stonewalled or sidestepped.’
- ‘For six days the company has stonewalled customers and the press with vague explanations or, worse, no explanation at all.’
- ‘I can't tell for sure, but it seems like my dad is stonewalling my mom's lawyers by not responding to letters.’
- ‘This allows the airline to stonewall the workers' demands for improved living standards while amassing profits.’
- ‘The bankers refused to give an inch and just stonewalled us.’
- ‘The White House is going to pay a heavy political price for the months it spent denying and stonewalling the problem.’
- ‘They seem to have made a decision to stonewall me in the hopes that I will simply go away.’
- ‘They just don't want to know and they don't care, they stonewall us.’
- ‘This went on four times, with Wallace getting more desperate as he believed Bill was stonewalling him.’
- ‘When she confronted Don, he stonewalled her and limited her access to the business records.’
- ‘The hospital stonewalled Turner, the website had no news.’
- ‘That hasn't stopped him from trying to market his album, even if commercial radio stations have been stonewalling him.’
- ‘By acknowledging nothing, denying everything and stonewalling every investigation, we are all therefore complicit in a war crime of unprecedented gravity.’
- ‘Each and every time I'd try to arrange a meeting, she'd stonewall me.’
Synonyms
abnegation, amphibology, avoid, cop-out, copout, cover up, coverup, deceptiveness, delay, dissimulation, double meaning, elusion, equivocation, eschewal, evade, evasion, fancy footwork, filibuster, fugiviteness, fugivity, hold back, hold off, jive, nixing, obliqueness, obstruct, put off, quibbling routine, rebuff, refuse, resist, run around, runaround, stall, tergiversation
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