Thesaurus / evading
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synonyms for evading
- ethereal
- unreal
- abstract
- eluding
- hypothetical
- impalpable
- imponderable
- slight
- abstruse
- airy
- dim
- elusive
- evanescent
- evasive
- imperceptible
- inappreciable
- incorporeal
- indeterminate
- insensible
- invisible
- rare
- shadowy
- slender
- unapparent
- uncertain
- unobservable
- unsubstantial
- unsure
- vague
- dodging
- artifice
- circumvention
- cunning
- ditch
- dodge
- elusion
- equivocation
- evasiveness
- excuse
- jive
- lie
- obliqueness
- pretext
- prevarication
- quibble
- routine
- ruse
- shift
- shirking
- shuffling
- shunning
- slip
- sophism
- sophistry
- stall
- subterfuge
- trick
- trickery
- come-off
- cop-out
- equivocating
- eschewal
- fancy footwork
- fugiviteness
- fugivity
- runaround
- stonewall
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use evading in a sentence
It was a nightmare, constantly evading the most passionate wishes and endeavours, and constantly gaining ground.
RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLAll of these are oath-sounds rather than oaths, and somewhat oath-evading, after the fashion of "goldarn it," in America.
CYRANO DE BERGERACEDMOND ROSTANDShe was plainly flurried by the meeting, and looking about trying to find if there were not, even yet, a way of evading it.
THE UNDERWORLDJAMES C. WELSHEvading any further question, Peter hastily traversed the vault, elevating the light so as to reveal the contents of each cell.
ROOKWOODWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTHThey are evading the choice under cover of the Allies and waxing fat meanwhile.
RAEMAEKERS' CARTOONSLOUIS RAEMAEKERSIts impossible not to understand her at once, Potugin replied quickly, as though evading the last question.
SMOKETURGENEV IVAN SERGEEVICH"I'm ready to do it now, uncle," responded Mary, evading a reply to his question by the prompt proffer of her services.
BELFORD'S MAGAZINE, VOL. II, NO. 3, FEBRUARY 1889VARIOUSThe new kind of adaptation was in sight, however, which was to have the double advantage of evading the law and elevating the art.
THE ENGLISH STAGEAUGUSTIN FILONIt is like tossing a feather; or trying to drive a swarm of flies; dodging and evading every impulse applied.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, VOL. XV., NO. 388, JUNE 9, 1883VARIOUS"That's an argument in favor of cremation, at any rate," replied Dear Jones, evading the direct question.
TALES OF FANTASY AND FACTBRANDER MATTHEWSWORDS RELATED TO EVADING
- artifice
- circumvention
- come-off
- cop-out
- cunning
- ditch
- dodge
- dodging
- elusion
- equivocating
- equivocation
- eschewal
- evading
- evasiveness
- excuse
- fancy footwork
- fugiviteness
- fugivity
- jive
- lie
- obliqueness
- pretext
- prevarication
- quibble
- routine
- runaround
- ruse
- shift
- shirking
- shuffling
- shunning
- slip
- sophism
- sophistry
- stall
- stonewall
- subterfuge
- trick
- trickery
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.