elusion
[ ih-loo-zhuh n ]
Synonyms for elusion
- evasion
- prevention
- restraint
- circumvention
- delay
- departure
- dodge
- dodging
- escape
- escapism
- flight
- forbearance
- nonparticipation
- parry
- recession
- recoil
- retreat
- self-restraint
- shirking
- shunning
- absention
- eschewal
- passive resistance
- run-around
- steering clear of
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I said it was, and done in defiance and by elusion of the law.
The game of challenge and elusion on her part, of perpetual and ever more ardent advance on his.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR ELUSION
- abrogation
- absconding
- apostasy
- avoidance
- backsliding
- betrayal
- castoff
- defecting
- departing
- departure
- derelict
- dereliction
- disaffection
- disavowal
- disavowing
- divorce
- elusion
- escape
- evasion
- falling away
- falseness
- flight
- forsaking
- going back on
- leaving
- marooning
- perfidy
- recreancy
- rejection
- relinquishment
- renunciation
- repudiation
- resignation
- retirement
- retreat
- running out on
- secession
- tergiversation
- treachery
- truancy
- withdrawal
- AWOL
- abdication
- avoidance
- beat
- bolt
- break
- breakout
- bypassing
- circumvention
- decampment
- deliverance
- departure
- desertion
- disappearance
- dodging
- ducking
- elopement
- elusion
- elusiveness
- eschewal
- evasion
- evasiveness
- extrication
- fadeout
- flight
- freedom
- hegira
- lam
- leave
- liberation
- out
- outbreak
- powder
- release
- rescue
- retreat
- runaround
- shunning
- sidestepping
- slip
- spring
- withdrawal
- AWOL
- abdication
- avoidance
- beat
- bolt
- break
- breakout
- bypassing
- circumvention
- decampment
- deliverance
- departure
- desertion
- disappearance
- dodging
- ducking
- elopement
- elusion
- elusiveness
- eschewal
- evasion
- evasiveness
- extrication
- fadeout
- flight
- freedom
- hegira
- lam
- leave
- liberation
- out
- outbreak
- powder
- release
- rescue
- retreat
- runaround
- shunning
- sidestepping
- slip
- spring
- withdrawal
- artifice
- circumvention
- cop-out
- cunning
- ditch
- dodge
- dodging
- elusion
- equivocating
- equivocation
- eschewal
- evading
- evasiveness
- excuse
- fancy footwork
- fudging
- fugiviteness
- fugivity
- jive
- lie
- obliqueness
- pretext
- prevarication
- quibble
- routine
- run-around
- ruse
- shift
- shirking
- shuffling
- shunning
- slip
- sophism
- sophistry
- stall
- stonewall
- subterfuge
- trick
- trickery
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- non sequitur
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quibbling
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
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