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dodge

a quick evasive movement

a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid; "The child dodged the teacher's blow"

move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course; "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd"

Synonyms:

• about the bush,
• action,
• ad hoc measure,
• answer,
• around the bush,
• art,
• artful dodge,
• artifice,
• avoid,
• avoidance,
• avoiding reaction,
• back and fill,
• bag of tricks,
• ballot-box stuffing,
• be stuck-up,
• beat about,
• beat around,
• beg the question,
• bicker,
• blench,
• blind,
• blink,
• bluff,
• bob,
• boggle,
• bosey,
• bunco,
• cardsharping,
• carefully ignore,
• catch,
• cavil,
• cheat,
• cheating,
• chicane,
• chicanery,
• choplogic,
• chouse,
• circumvention,
• cold-shoulder,
• conspiracy,
• contrivance,
• countermove,
• coup,
• course of action,
• cozenage,
• craft,
• cringe,
• curve,
• curve-ball,
• cut a corner,
• cut corners,
• cute trick,
• dart,
• deceit,
• deceive,
• deception,
• defense mechanism,
• demarche,
• design,
• device,
• diddle,
• diddling,
• dirty deal,
• dirty trick,
• dishonesty,
• dog it,
• double-talk,
• draw back,
• duck,
• duck duty,
• effort,
• elude,
• elusion,
• elusiveness,
• equivocate,
• equivocation,
• escape,
• evade,
• evade the issue,
• evasion,
• evasive action,
• evasiveness,
• expedient,
• fade,
• fakement,
• fall back,
• fallback,
• fast deal,
• feint,
• fence,
• fetch,
• ficelle,
• fight shy of,
• finesse,
• fishy transaction,
• flam,
• flimflam,
• flinch,
• forbearance,
• forestalling,
• forestallment,
• fraud,
• fraudulence,
• fraudulency,
• fudge,
• gambit,
• game,
• gerrymandering,
• get out of,
• getting around,
• gimmick,
• goldbrick,
• goof off,
• googly,
• graft,
• grift,
• gyp,
• gyp joint,
• hang back,
• hedge,
• hem and haw,
• hocus-pocus,
• hold aloof,
• hum and haw,
• illicit business,
• imposition,
• imposture,
• improvisation,
• intrigue,
• jesuitism,
• jib,
• jink,
• joker,
• juggle,
• jugglery,
• jury-rig,
• jury-rigged expedient,
• keep aloof,
• knavery,
• last expedient,
• last resort,
• last shift,
• little game,
• machination,
• makeshift,
• malinger,
• maneuver,
• means,
• measure,
• mince the truth,
• mince words,
• move,
• move aside,
• mystify,
• neutrality,
• nitpick,
• nonintervention,
• noninvolvement,
• not pull fair,
• obscure,
• palter,
• parry,
• pass,
• pass over,
• pass over lightly,
• pick nits,
• pis aller,
• plan,
• plot,
• ploy,
• prevaricate,
• prevarication,
• prevention,
• pull away,
• pull back,
• pullback,
• pullout,
• pussyfoot,
• put off,
• quail,
• quibble,
• quiddity,
• quillet,
• quip,
• quirk,
• quodlibet,
• racket,
• recoil,
• red herring,
• reel back,
• refraining,
• resort,
• resource,
• retreat,
• ruse,
• scam,
• scamp,
• scheme,
• scurvy trick,
• shake-up,
• sheer off,
• shift,
• shift off,
• shirk,
• short-circuit,
• shrink,
• shrink back,
• shuffle,
• shun,
• shunning,
• shunting off,
• shy,
• shy away,
• shy off,
• sidestep,
• sidestepping,
• sidetracking,
• skim,
• skim over,
• skim the surface,
• skimp,
• skip over,
• skirt,
• skulk,
• slack,
• sleight,
• sleight of hand,
• sleight-of-hand trick,
• slide,
• slide out of,
• slight,
• slip,
• slip out of,
• slubber over,
• slur,
• slur over,
• sneak out of,
• soldier,
• solution,
• split hairs,
• stand aloof,
• start aside,
• start back,
• steer clear of,
• step,
• step aside,
• stopgap,
• stratagem,
• strategy,
• stroke,
• stroke of policy,
• subterfuge,
• swerve,
• swindle,
• tactic,
• temporary expedient,
• tergiversate,
• the runaround,
• touch upon,
• touch upon lightly,
• trick,
• trickery,
• trump,
• turn aside,
• twist and turn,
• veer,
• waffle,
• ward off,
• weasel,
• weasel out,
• weave,
• welsh,
• wheeze,
• wile,
• wily device,
• wince,
• working hypothesis,
• working proposition,
• zigzag