| Main Entry: |
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| Part of Speech: |
noun |
| Definition: |
escape, avoidance |
| Synonyms: |
artifice, circumvention, cop-out,
cunning,
ditch*,
dodge*, dodging, elusion, equivocating,
equivocation, eschewal, evading, evasiveness,
excuse, fancy footwork, fudging, fugiviteness, fugivity, jive,
lie, obliqueness, pretext, prevarication,
quibble,
routine, run-around,
ruse,
shift, shirking, shuffling, shunning,
slip*, sophism, sophistry,
stall, stonewall,
subterfuge,
trick, trickery
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| Antonyms: |
directness, facing, meeting
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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