Search Result for "evasion":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (4)
1. a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth;
[syn: evasion, equivocation]
2. the deliberate act of failing to pay money;
- Example: "his evasion of all his creditors"
- Example: "he was indicted for nonpayment"
[syn: evasion, nonpayment]
3. 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]
4. the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
evasion \e*va"sion\ ([-e]*v[=a]"zh[u^]n), n. [L. evasio: cf. F. ['e]vasion. See Evade.] The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding. [1913 Webster] Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more. --Milton. Syn: Shift; subterfuge; shuffling; prevarication; equivocation. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "evasion": abstention, airtight secrecy, anythingarianism, artifice, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, break, breakout, buck-passing, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, close secrecy, closeness, concealment, cop-out, cringe, crypticness, cunning, deceit, deception, defense mechanism, deliverance, delivery, discreetness, discretion, dodge, dodging, double-talk, duck, elusion, elusiveness, emergence, equivocating, equivocation, escape, escapism, eschewal, evasive action, evasiveness, excuse, extrication, fallback, fence-sitting, fencing, flight, flinch, foiling, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, freeing, frustration, fudging, getaway, getting around, getting round, haggling, hairsplitting, hedging, hiddenness, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, impartiality, independence, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jink, leak, leakage, liberation, logic-chopping, lying, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality, nit-picking, nonalignment, noncommitment, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nothingarianism, outguessing, outlet, outmaneuvering, outwitting, paltering, parrying, passing the buck, pettifoggery, prevarication, prevention, prisonbreak, pullback, pullout, pussyfooting, quibbling, recoil, refraining, release, rescue, retreat, riddance, runaround, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness, setting-free, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, slip, sophistry, strict neutrality, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tergiversation, the dark, the runaround, the slip, thwarting, trichoschistism, trickery, uncommunicativeness, vent, weasel words, wince, zigzag
