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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, clock-watching, ducking, equivocation, evasion, fencing, goofing off, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, malingering, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, skulking, slacking, soldiering, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tax dodging, tax evasion, tergiversation, trichoschistism, truancy, weasel words, welshing
Dictionary Results for dodging:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dodging
    n 1: nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or
         trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his
         clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the
         consequences is possible but unattractive" [syn: evasion,
         escape, dodging]
    2: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or
       trickery [syn: dodge, dodging, scheme]
    3: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from
       happening [syn: avoidance, turning away, shunning,
       dodging]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dodge \Dodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dodged; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Dodging.] [Of uncertain origin: cf. dodder, v., daddle,
   dade, or dog, v. t.]
   1. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile;
      to shift place by a sudden start. --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to
      use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
      [1913 Webster]

            Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity.
                                                  --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

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