evasion
Slipping away skillfully
Evasion is the act of avoiding something—capture, responsibility, or direct confrontation.
Tax evasion is the illegal nonpayment of taxes.
A politician's evasion of questions frustrates reporters.
The word implies deliberate maneuvering: His evasion of the topic made her suspicious.
Evasive answers dodge rather than address what's asked.
Avoid by quick movement
- sidestepEvade by moving aside
- swerveAbrupt directional change
- feintDeceptive mock attack
- jukeDeceptive athletic sidestep
jink · weaving · bobbing · ducking · parry · pivot · countermove · deke
Avoiding by moving aside
- shirkingAvoiding obligatory tasks
- sidesteppingMoving aside to avoid
- duckingBending to avoid impact
- circumventionAct of going around
bypassing · deflection · averting · noncompliance · disregard · neglect · omission · abstention
Stating known falsehoods
- misleadingCausing false beliefs
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- falsificationDeliberate alteration of truth
- prevaricationMisleading speech avoiding directness
dissembling · disinformation · guile · artifice · subterfuge · duplicity · chicanery · obfuscation
Away from land
- loopholeExploitable gap in rules
- shelterProtected place or structure
- havenShelter from danger
- launderingCleaning fabric items
concealment · underreporting · fraud · nondisclosure · undeclared · hidden · Swiss · Cayman
Rapid escape from danger
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
- getawaySwift departure or retreat
- breakoutSudden escape from restraint
- abscondingDeparting secretly to evade
exfiltration · slipping · bolting · vanishing · jailbreak · extrication · liberation · fugitive
Defense of location
- pretextFabricated motive concealing truth
- justificationReason proving rightness
- rationalizationInventing acceptable motives afterward
- explanationStatement making something clear
plea · defense · exculpation · whitewash · pretense · story · cover · denial
Lacking friction, hard-to-grasp
- intangibleNot physically present
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- ungraspableImpossible to seize
- untraceableImpossible to follow back
undetectable · shadowy · ghostly · phantom · ephemeral · mercurial · cagey · noncommittal
dodge
Avoid by quick movement
juke · jink · weaving · bobbing · ducking · parry · pivot · countermove · deke · slalom
dodging
Avoiding by moving aside
- shirkingAvoiding obligatory tasks
- sidesteppingMoving aside to avoid
- duckingBending to avoid impact
circumvention · bypassing · deflection · averting · noncompliance · disregard · neglect · omission · abstention · declining
lying
Stating known falsehoods
- misleadingCausing false beliefs
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- falsificationDeliberate alteration of truth
prevarication · dissembling · disinformation · guile · artifice · subterfuge · duplicity · chicanery · obfuscation · misdirection
offshore
Away from land
laundering · concealment · underreporting · fraud · nondisclosure · undeclared · hidden · Swiss · Cayman · shell
fleeing
Rapid escape from danger
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
- getawaySwift departure or retreat
- breakoutSudden escape from restraint
absconding · exfiltration · slipping · bolting · vanishing · jailbreak · extrication · liberation · fugitive · disappearance
alibi
Defense of location
- pretextFabricated motive concealing truth
- justificationReason proving rightness
- rationalizationInventing acceptable motives afterward
explanation · plea · defense · exculpation · whitewash · pretense · story · cover · denial · minimization
slippery
Lacking friction, hard-to-grasp
- intangibleNot physically present
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- ungraspableImpossible to seize
untraceable · undetectable · shadowy · ghostly · phantom · ephemeral · mercurial · cagey · noncommittal · vague
- dirty trickscheating, lying, deceit, trickery, deception
- evasionavoiding, avoids, dodging, dodge, sidestep
- combat tacticsflanking, ambush, feint, skirmish, firefight
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- finanzasbanco, euro, hacienda, bolsa, mercados
evasionconfrontation
Direct hostile encounter
facing · meeting · engagement · grappling · tackling
evasiondirectness
Quality of being straightforward
frankness · candor · straightforwardness · honesty · forthrightness
evasionpayment
Fulfilling a financial obligation
compliance · fulfillment · honoring · remittance · discharge
- draft evasionAvoiding mandatory military service
- tax evasionIllegally avoiding government dues
- evasive maneuvers
- evasive actionMovement to escape harm
- fare evasionNot paying transit cost
- sanctions evasionAvoiding imposed trade restrictions