told white lie (verb) equivocate: avoid an issue
Sinonime: beat around the bush, beg the question, blow hot and cold, cavil, cloud the issue,
con, cop a plea, cop out, cover up,
dodge, double-talk,
elude,
escape,
eschew,
evade, falsify, fence, fib, flip-flop, fudge, give run around, hedge, hem and haw, jive,
lie, mince words, palter, parry, pass the buck,
prevaricate, pussyfoot,
quibble, run around, shuck,
shuffle, sidestep, sit on the fence, stonewall, tell white lie, tergiversate, tergiverse, waffle, weasel
Antonime: face,
meet, speak on