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stonewall
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  • McBain stonewalled the many questions and directed his guests to the cellar stairs behind the front desk.  (source)
    stonewalled = didn't answer questions
  • She reached a producer and told her the story: her husband's incarceration, the call from Homeland Security, the stonewalling, the courts that didn't even exist.  (source)
    stonewalling = not answering questions
  • Disgust, for example, is 1, contempt is 2, anger is 7, defensiveness is 10, whining is 11, sadness is 12, stonewalling is 13, neutral is 14, and so on.†  (source)
    stonewalling = not answering questions; or blocking progress
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  • Stonewall me, but count on the fact that Reynolds being DIA will be deemed to be the cause of his death.†  (source)
    Stonewall = not answer questions; or block progress
  • I was being stonewalled by a corpse.†  (source)
    stonewalled = wouldn't answer questions; or blocked progress
  • If they're so great, then they should stop stonewalling me and let me see my brothers.†  (source)
    stonewalling = not answering questions; or blocking progress
  • The Jackson Stonewaller?†  (source)
    Stonewaller = someone who won't answer questions; or blocks progress
  • He passed through Grantsboro and Alliance, Bayboro and Stonewall, towns even smaller than Oriental, and it struck him that Pamlico County was like a place lost in time, nothing but a forgotten page in an abandoned book.†  (source)
    Stonewall = not answer questions; or block progress
  • Ang Dorje hailed from Pangboche, an aggregation of stonewalled houses and terraced potato fields clinging to a rugged hillside at 13,000 feet.†  (source)
    stonewalled = wouldn't answer questions; or blocked progress
  • After stonewalling his way through five police interrogations, it was not a good idea to start boasting that he actually knew something on a mobile less than 200 yards from a police station.†  (source)
    stonewalling = not answering questions; or blocking progress
  • One afternoon, I was invited into our smoke-filled dining room to make the acquaintance of Stonewall Jimmy, Just Black, Cool Clyde, Tight Coat and Red Leg.†  (source)
    Stonewall = not answer questions; or block progress
  • She was lying in the center of a Persian rug thrown over the floor of a large stonewalled room.†  (source)
    stonewalled = wouldn't answer questions; or blocked progress
  • He has found that he can find out much of what he needs to know just by focusing on what he calls the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.†  (source)
    stonewalling = not answering questions; or blocking progress
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  • Harry, on the other hand, was going to Stonewall High, the local public school.  (source)
    Stonewall = a name in this story
  • "They stuff people's heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall," he told Harry.  (source)
  • He's going to Stonewall High and he'll be grateful for it.  (source)
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He sat down at the table and tried not to think about how he was going to look on his first day at Stonewall High — like he was wearing bits of old elephant skin, probably.  (source)
Stonewall = a name in this story
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