shirking

evading pretending slacking

apathetic careless indifferent uninterested

active energetic toiling

evasion prevention restraint

circumvention delay departure dodge dodging elusion escape escapism flight forbearance nonparticipation parry recession recoil retreat self-restraint shunning

absention eschewal passive resistance runaround steering clear of

advance arrival coming continuation stay

meeting

dodging

artifice circumvention cunning ditch dodge elusion equivocation evasiveness excuse jive lie obliqueness pretext prevarication quibble routine ruse shift 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