Main entry: shunning, turning away, avoidance, dodging
Definition: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
Main entry: dodging, evasion, escape
Definition: nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
Usage: his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible; that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive
Main entry: scheme, dodge, dodging
Definition: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery