dodging
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(noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery |
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Synonyms: dodge, scheme |
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Related Words: false statement, falsehood, falsity, untruth |
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(noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" |
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Synonyms: escape, evasion |
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Related Words: carelessness, circumvention, escape mechanism, goldbricking, goofing off, malingering, neglect, negligence, nonperformance, shirking, skulking, slacking, soldiering, tax evasion |
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(noun) deliberately avoiding |
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Synonyms: avoidance, shunning, turning away |
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Related Words: averting, escape, rejection |
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