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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
evasion \e*va"sion\ ([-e]*v[=a]"zh[u^]n), noun [L. evasio: cf. F. ['e]vasion. See {Evade}.] The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more. --Milton.
Syn: Shift; subterfuge; shuffling; prevarication; equivocation.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
evasion
noun
1: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth [syn: {equivocation}]
2: the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment" [syn: {nonpayment}] [ant: {payment}]
3: 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" [syn: {escape}, {dodging}]
4: the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "evasion": abstention, airtight secrecy, anythingarianism, artifice, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, break, breakout, buck-passing, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, close secrecy, closeness, concealment, cop-out, cringe, crypticness, cunning, deceit, deception, defense mechanism, deliverance, delivery, discreetness, discretion, dodge, dodging, double-talk, duck, elusion, elusiveness, emergence, equivocating, equivocation, escape, escapism, eschewal, evasive action, evasiveness, excuse, extrication, fallback, fence-sitting, fencing, flight, flinch, foiling, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, freeing, frustration, fudging, getaway, getting around, getting round, haggling, hairsplitting, hedging, hiddenness, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, impartiality, independence, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jink, leak, leakage, liberation, logic-chopping, lying, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality, nit-picking, nonalignment, noncommitment, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nothingarianism, outguessing, outlet, outmaneuvering, outwitting, paltering, parrying, passing the buck, pettifoggery, prevarication, prevention, prisonbreak, pullback, pullout, pussyfooting, quibbling, recoil, refraining, release, rescue, retreat, riddance, runaround, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness, setting-free, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, slip, sophistry, strict neutrality, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tergiversation, the dark, the runaround, the slip, thwarting, trichoschistism, trickery, uncommunicativeness, vent, weasel words, wince, zigzag
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