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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

... evasion was to be effected she knew not. The castle keys were never delivered to her, but always to Hardcastle, and she saw him take them; but she received from Ridley a look and sign which meant that she was to be ready, and when she left the hall she made ...

— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge

... through the evasion, but by shrewd reading of the sanctimonious face, saw also the inward suspicion as clearly as if Darling had spoken it. His tone and ...

— The Mormon Prophet • Lily Dougall

... turns repulsed or encouraged, his feelings played upon, his nerves unstrung by the constant resistance; rolling himself at the feet of an immovable, determined woman, who with a supple opposition abandoned to his impassioned embrace only the cold little Parisian hands, so skillful in defense and evasion, while she imprinted on his lips the scorching flame of the enrapturing words:—"Oh! when you have ceased to be king, I shall be all yours—all yours!" She made him pass through all the dangerous phases of passion and coldness; and often at the theatre, after an icy greeting ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

... regret if what I said on the subject of Canada being free from income tax gave the impression of being a suggestion for the evasion by wealthy men of taxation during the war. The fact that capital is not subject to income tax in Canada was, of course, well known to men of wealth. I thought it a point and a fact of sufficient importance as bearing upon our own taxation program to deserve to be made generally known. That ...

— War Taxation - Some Comments and Letters • Otto H. Kahn

... the girl awed the young man, for never before had he seen her so serious and determined. In most, of their previous interviews she had met his advances with evasion or sarcasm, but these Hurry had mistaken for female coquetry, and had supposed might easily be converted into consent. The struggle had been with himself, about offering, nor had he ever seriously believed it possible that Judith would refuse ...

— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper

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