Definitions of dodging
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deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
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synonyms:
avoidance, shunning, turning away
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types:
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aversion, averting
the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
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escape
an avoidance of danger or difficulty
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near thing
something that barely avoids failure or disaster
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type of:
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rejection
the act of rejecting something
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aversion, averting
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nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
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escape mechanism
a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities
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malingering, skulking
evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated
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goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering
the evasion of work or duty
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circumvention
the act of evading by going around
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type of:
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carelessness, neglect, negligence, nonperformance
failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
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a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
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