"I was actually trying to be polite and avoid telling you it's none of your business."

"He also told you to avoid telling people what they don't want to hear."

It was always our natural inclination to avoid telling people about the other one.

I think this is just something he made up to avoid telling you the truth.

They needed to know, and I couldn't see a good reason to avoid telling them.

Try to avoid telling your child to be careful every time it goes to play with a friend.

"Ellie, I can't avoid telling my brother what the situation is."

Rather than tell the truth, he chose to avoid telling a lie.

Leaders of both parties said they would avoid telling individual candidates what to do.

The Feds would certainly protect themselves from a situation like this and avoid telling their inside man anything more than he needed to know.