equivocating, fudging, hedging, pussyfooting, tergiversating, waffling
flip-flopping, yo-yoingdodging, ducking, eluding, eschewing, evading, shaking, shirking, shunning, sidestepping, skirtingbypassing, circumventingcaviling(or cavilling), quibblingstraddling
beating around the bush(or beating about the bush), hemming and hawing, straddling the fence