dodger
Example Sentences
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A "brazen" rail fare dodger has been fined more than £3,600 after failing to pay for a ticket on over a hundred journeys.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
It was Ali who was the rebel, and people considered him a draft dodger.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2024
The sense of compromise in some of his orchestral recordings can be hard to shake off; one Times critic called him “the most artful dodger of major issues now before the public.”
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021
Moreover, as Risen documents, it established this son of a wealthy Civil War draft dodger as the embodiment of America’s emergence as a world power.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2019
But that dodger, as soon as he had caught the woman’s eye and nodded, slipped away to join the ship.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
