[
UK
/stˈəʊnwɔːl/
]
[ US /ˈstoʊnˌwɔɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈstoʊnˌwɔɫ/ ]
VERB
-
engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate
The President stonewalled when he realized the plot was being uncovered by a journalist -
obstruct or hinder any discussion
When she doesn't like to face a problem, she simply stonewalls
Nixon stonewalled the Watergate investigation
How To Use stonewall In A Sentence
- Government stonewalling and a dysfunctional justice system also jeopardized the case.
- They stonewalled me but I found out about a guy who had worked for them back in the seventies. CORMORANT
- The players themselves are responsible for the stonewalling in their game. Times, Sunday Times
- Each and every time I'd try to arrange a meeting, she'd stonewall me.
- In a star-spangled career stretching nearly forty years Derek McCann has stonewalled every single team that has participated in Section One of the Northern Cricket Union.
- Secretary Small and Deputy Secretary Burke have exhibited a head-in-the-sand attitude toward wrongdoing at their agency; they have engaged in stonewalling and spin rather than dealing forthrightly with the discrimination that has occurred. Another Government Report Supports Sternberg
- I don't have experience with the government stonewalling me at all.
- But even a good question can be stonewalled or sidestepped.
- They seem to have made a decision to stonewall me in the hopes that I will simply go away.
- Nevertheless, liberals are furious about what they're calling a stonewall tactic, reminiscent of the Bush-Cheney years. CNN Transcript May 13, 2009
