Dodging
Related Definitions
[n] deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
[n] 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"
[n] a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
Related Terms
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, puss