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evasion

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Main Entry: evasion
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

Antonyms:

directness, facing, meeting
Related Words
Main Entry: evasion
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
avoiding, elusive, escaped, escaping, evasive, fugitive, lucifugous, neutral, runaway, shy, unattempted, unsought, wild
Main Entry: antipathy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: strong dislike, disgust

Synonyms:

abhorrence, allergy, animosity, animus, antagonism, aversion, avoidance, bad blood, contrariety, distaste, dyspathy, enmity, escape, eschewal, evasion, hate, hatred, hostility, ill will, incompatibility, loathing, opposition, rancor, repellency, repugnance, repulsion

Antonyms:

admiration, appreciation, approval, esteem, honor, like, liking, love, rapport, regard, respect, sympathy
Main Entry: avoidance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: eluding; preventing

Synonyms:

absention, circumvention, delay, departure, dodge, dodging, elusion, escape, escapism, eschewal, evasion, flight, forbearance, nonparticipation, parry, passive resistance, prevention, recession, recoil, restraint, retreat, run-around, self-restraint, shirking, shunning, steering clear of

Antonyms:

meeting
Main Entry: casuistry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overgeneral reasoning

Synonyms:

chicanery, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, oversubtleness, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, trick
Main Entry: cover-up
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: attempt to conceal embarrassing or scandalous information

Synonyms:

burial, camouflage, closeting, complicity, concealment, conspiracy, disguising, dissimulation, evasion, front, hush-up, masking, placing under wraps, pretense, seal of secrecy, smoke-screen, veil of secrecy, whitewash
Main Entry: desertion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abandonment

Synonyms:

abrogation, absconding, apostasy, avoidance, backsliding, betrayal, castoff, defecting, departing, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, disavowal, disavowing, divorce, elusion, escape, evasion, falling away, falseness, flight, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, rejection, relinquishment, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retirement, retreat, running out on, secession, tergiversation, treachery, truancy, withdrawal

Antonyms:

aid, assistance, help, staying
Main Entry: device
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ploy, scheme, maneuver

Synonyms:

artifice, cabal, chicanery, clever move, craft, craftiness, cunningness, design, dodge, evasion, expedient, fake, feint, finesse, gambit, game, gimmick, improvisation, loophole, machination, method, pattern, plan, plot, project, proposition, purpose, racket, ruse, shift, stratagem, strategy, stunt, subterfuge, trap, trick, wile
Main Entry: equivocation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: avoidance of an issue

Synonyms:

ambiguity, amphibology, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, dissimulation, distortion, double entendre, double meaning, double talk, doubtfulness, duplicity, equivocality, evasion, fallacy, fib, fibbing, hedging, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, quibbling routine, run-around, shuffling, song and dance, song*, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, stall, stonewall, tergiversation, waffle

Antonyms:

directness, facing, meeting
Main Entry: escape
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: breaking away; getaway

Synonyms:

AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat, bolt, break, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, flight, freedom, hegira, lam, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, runaround, shunning, sidestepping, slip, spring, withdrawal

Antonyms:

capture, maintenance, stay
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