Related / Similar Words:
contrivance, stratagem, dodging, scheme, hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, duck, sidestep Definition: a quick evasive movement;an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track";a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery;avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully";make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid; "The child dodged the teacher''s blow";move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course; "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd";
Hyponyms: plant, pump-and-dump scheme, wangle, wangling, quibble Derivational Morphology:
hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, duck, sidestep, dodging, scheme, dodger, fox, slyboots, avoidance, turning away, shunning, evasion, escape, circumvention, hedging, hedger, equivocator Anagrams:
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