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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

... Austria and of absolutism declared that the employment of the Prussian army on behalf of the Hessians would make the King an accomplice of revolution: the bolder and more patriotic spirits protested against the abdication of Prussia's just claims and the evasion of its responsibilities towards Germany. For a moment the party of action, led by the Prince of Prussia, gained the ascendant. General Radowitz, the projector of the Union, was called to the Foreign Ministry, and Prussian troops entered Hesse. Austria now ostentatiously prepared for war. Frederick ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... (2.) The lie of evasion is a form of lying which seldom appears when the relations between child and parents are absolutely friendly and open. However, the child who is very desirous of approval may find it difficult to own up to a fault, even when he is certain that ...

— Study of Child Life • Marion Foster Washburne

... that way," she said, and I knew that for the first time she had swept aside subterfuge and evasion, and was speaking straight to the presence before her. "After all, you are dead and I am living, and I cannot fight you that way. I give up everything. I give him back to you. Nothing is mine that I cannot win and keep fairly. Nothing is mine ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... particular conception of evasion that had set her careering about the countryside in her car, looking for conceivable houses of refuge from this dark novelty of social and personal care, and that had driven her into the low long room of Black Strand and the presence of ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... something. Environment has much to do with the shaping of a life. Yet a responsibility without evasion rests upon each individual soul. Not one is saved or lost without his own voluntary contribution toward that end. It is an awful responsibility, commensurate with the rewards offered to integrity and fidelity. The thought ...

— Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence - The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of - Slavery to the Present Time • Various

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