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evasiveness

noun as in avoidance

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What he lacked in size, he made up for in devastating speed, evasiveness and skill, and he honed his tackling technique to enable him to compensate when it came to felling far bigger opponents.

From BBC

Commissioner Wendy Mitchell scolded Fravel for his evasiveness on what the purse cuts would be if the Northern California proposal was passed.

Trump answered questions with such verbosity at the April deposition — veering from evasiveness to bluster to filibuster at times — that one lawyer worried his seven hours of sworn testimony could go until midnight.

They cited China’s record of human rights abuses and what lawmakers described as China’s evasiveness in refusing to make bigger cuts in climate-damaging fossil fuel emissions.

Mr. Porter, the anti-abortion activist from Virginia, said Mr. Trump’s evasiveness was concerning.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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