About The Word Dodging

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Dodging

Dodging Meaning & Definition
Dodging Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dodging?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dodging: avoidance | dodge | evasion | scheme | shunning | turning away

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dodging: 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 | pussyfooting | quibbling | shifting | shirking | shuffle | shuffling | sidestepping | skulking | slacking | soldiering | subterfuge | suppressio veri | tax dodging | tax evasion | tergiversation | trichoschistism | truancy | weasel words | welshing

See Also | aversion | averting | carelessness | circumvention | escape | escape mechanism | false statement | falsehood | falsity | goldbricking | goofing off | malingering | near thing | neglect | negligence | nonperformance | rejection | shirking | skulking | slacking | soldiering | untruth

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