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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do;
- Example: "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"
- Example: "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
[syn: evasion, escape, dodging]

2. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery;
[syn: dodge, dodging, scheme]

3. deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening;
[syn: avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dodge \Dodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dodged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dodging.] [Of uncertain origin: cf. dodder, v., daddle, dade, or dog, v. t.] 1. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. [1913 Webster] Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dodging n 1: 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" [syn: evasion, escape, dodging] 2: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery [syn: dodge, dodging, scheme] 3: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening [syn: avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "dodging": bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, clock-watching, ducking, equivocation, evasion, fencing, goofing off, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, malingering, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, skulking, slacking, soldiering, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tax dodging, tax evasion, tergiversation, trichoschistism, truancy, weasel words, welshing