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/ɪvˈeɪʒən/ /ivˈeɪʒən/ Listen

Evasion

noun

A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth. Synonym: equivocation.

The deliberate act of failing to pay money. Synonym: nonpayment. "He was indicted for nonpayment"

Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do. Synonyms: dodging, escape. "That escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"

The act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver.

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"Evasion" Quotes from Famous Books

... make a sudden resolution to cast him off utterly. Whatever be the consequence, I said, I will not be the victim of this shame. If I am to go down to the grave, it shall be as a man, and I will bear what I have to bear honestly and without resort to the base evasion of stupefaction. So that night I went to bed having drunk nothing but water. The struggle was not felt just then. It came later, when the first enthusiasm of a new purpose had faded away, and I had to fall back on mere force ...

— The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford • Mark Rutherford

... they did catch him? Would they gain by it? They could gain nothing, but the knowledge would serve to put them on their guard. But if she did suspect him, what use was there in evasion or denial? ...

— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer

... to myself, "is rather interesting. Here in this one farm we have the only three known methods of dealing with duns. Beale is evidently an exponent of the violent method. Ukridge is an apostle of evasion. I shall try conciliation. I wonder which of us will be the ...

— Love Among the Chickens - A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm • P. G. Wodehouse

... Copy of the Manifesto of the Junta Showing the Bad Faith of Spain in the Making and Evasion of a Treaty—The Declaration of the Renewal of the War of Rebellion—Complaints Against the Priests Defined—The Most Important Document the Filipinos Have Issued—Official Reports of Cases of Persecution of Men and Women in Manila ...

— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead

... their concern deepened into fear. The ever recurring question was, Who is this new prophet? Then the Jews, by which expression we may understand the rulers of the people, sent a delegation of priests and Levites of the Pharisaic party to personally question him. He answered without evasion, "I am not the Christ," and with equal decisiveness denied that he was Elias, or more accurately, Elijah, the prophet who, the rabbis said through a misinterpretation of Malachi's prediction, was to return ...

— Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage

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