dodging

Noun

• deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

• 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
    

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• Synonyms: 
  avoidance , turning away , shunning , dodge , scheme , evasion , escape