obliqueness

dodging

artifice circumvention cunning ditch dodge elusion equivocation evasiveness excuse jive lie pretext prevarication quibble routine ruse shift shirking shuffling shunning sophism sophistry stall subterfuge trick trickery

come-off cop-out equivocating eschewal evading fancy footwork fudging fugiviteness fugivity runaround stonewall

directness frankness honesty openness reality truth

facing meeting

hill ramp shelf

abruptness bank bend bevel bias cant declination declivity deflection descent deviation diagonal downgrade gradient inclination incline lean leaning obliquity pitch rise skew steepness swag sway tip

rising ground

upgrade

evenness level