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evasion
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 evasion
A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.
synoniem: equivocation.
Roget 927:
dereliction of duty;
fault
etc.
(guilt)
947;
sin
etc.
(vice)
945;
non-observance,
non-performance;
neglect,
relaxation,
infraction,
violation,
transgression,
failure,
evasion;
dead letter.
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Roget 773:
nonobservance
etc.
772;
evasion,
inobservance,
failure,
omission,
neglect,
laches [Law],
laxity,
informality.
infringement,
infraction;
violation,
transgression;
piracy.
retraction,
retractation†,
repudiation,
nullification;
protest;
forfeiture.
lawlessness;
disobedience
etc.
742;
bad faith
etc.
940.
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Roget 544:
falsehood,
falseness;
falsity,
falsification;
deception
etc.
545;
untruth
etc.
546;
guile;
lying
etc.
454;
untruth
etc.
546;
guile;
lying
etc.
v..
misrepresentation;
mendacity,
perjury,
false swearing;
forgery,
invention,
fabrication;
subreption†;
covin†.
perversion of truth,
suppression of truth;
suppressio veri [Lat.];
perversion,
distortion,
false coloring;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
prevarication,
equivocation,
shuffling,
fencing,
evasion,
fraud;
suggestio falsi
etc.
(lie)
546 [Lat.];
mystification
etc.
(concealment)
528;
simulation
etc.
(imitation)
19;
dissimulation,
dissembling;
deceit;
blague†.
sham;
pretense,
pretending,
malingering.
lip homage,
lip service;
mouth honor;
hollowness;
mere show,
mere outside;
duplicity,
double dealing,
insincerity,
hypocrisy,
cant,
humbug;
jesuitism,
jesuitry;
pharisaism;
Machiavelism,
organized hypocrisy;"
crocodile tears,
mealy-mouthedness†,
quackery;
charlatanism†,
charlatanry;
gammon;
bun-kum†,
bumcombe,
flam;
bam [Slang],
flimflam,
cajolery,
flattery;
Judas kiss;
perfidy
etc.
(bad faith)
940;
il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It].
unfairness
etc.
(dishonesty)
940;
artfulness
etc.
(cunning)
702;
misstatement
etc.
(error)
495.
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Roget 528:
concealment;
hiding
etc.
v.;
occultation,
mystification.
seal of secrecy;
screen
etc.
530;
disguise
etc.
530;
masquerade;
masked battery;
hiding place
etc.
530;
cryptography,
steganography†;
freemasonry.
stealth,
stealthiness,
sneakiness;
obreption†;
slyness
etc.
(cunning)
702.
latitancy†,
latitation†;
seclusion
etc.
893;
privacy,
secrecy,
secretness†;
incognita.
reticence;
reserve;
mental reserve,
reservation;
arriere pensee [Fr.],
suppression,
evasion,
white lie,
misprision;
silence
etc.
(taciturnity)
585;
suppression of truth
etc.
544;
underhand dealing;
closeness,
secretiveness
etc.
adj.;
mystery.
latency
etc.
526;
snake in the grass;
secret
etc.
533;
stowaway.
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Roget 477:
intuition,
instinct,
association,
hunch,
gut feeling;
presentiment,
premonition;
rule of thumb;
superstition;
astrology†;
faith
(supposition)
514.
sophistry,
paralogy†,
perversion,
casuistry,
jesuitry,
equivocation,
evasion;
chicane,
chicanery;
quiddet†,
quiddity;
mystification;
special pleading;
speciousness
etc.
adj.;
nonsense
etc.
497;
word sense,
tongue sense.
false reasoning,
vicious reasoning,
circular reasoning;
petitio principii [Lat.],
ignoratio elenchi [Lat.];
post hoc ergo propter hoc [Lat.];
non sequitur,
ignotum per ignotius [Lat.].
misjudgment
etc.
481;
false teaching
etc.
538.
sophism,
solecism,
paralogism†;
quibble,
quirk,
elenchus†,
elench†,
fallacy,
quodlibet,
subterfuge,
subtlety,
quillet†;
inconsistency,
antilogy†;
a delusion, a mockery, and a snare"
[Denman];
claptrap,
cant,
mere words;
lame and impotent conclusion"
[Othello].
meshes of sophistry,
cobwebs of sophistry;
flaw in an argument;
weak point,
bad case.
overrefinement†;
hairsplitting
etc.
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Roget 702:
cunning,
craft;
cunningness†,
craftiness
etc.
adj.;
subtlety,
artificiality;
maneuvering
etc.
v.;
temporization;
circumvention.
chicane,
chicanery;
sharp practice,
knavery,
jugglery†;
concealment
etc.
528;
guile,
doubling,
duplicity
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
foul play.
diplomacy,
politics;
Machiavelism;
jobbery,
backstairs influence.
art,
artifice;
device,
machination;
plot
etc.
(plan)
626;
maneuver,
stratagem,
dodge,
sidestep,
artful dodge,
wile;
trick,
trickery
etc.
(deception)
545;
ruse,
ruse de guerre [Fr.];
finesse,
side blow,
thin end of the wedge,
shift,
go by,
subterfuge,
evasion;
white lie
etc.
(untruth)
546;
juggle,
tour de force;
tricks of the trade,
tricks upon travelers;
espieglerie [Fr.];
net,
trap
etc.
545.
Ulysses,
Machiavel,
sly boots,
fox,
reynard;
Scotchman;
Jew,
Yankee;
intriguer,
intrigant†;
floater [U.S.],
Indian giver [U.S.],
keener [U.S.],
repeater [U.S.].
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Roget 546:
untruth,
falsehood,
lie,
story,
thing that is not,
fib,
bounce,
crammer,
taradiddle†,
whopper;
jhuth†.
forgery,
fabrication,
invention;
misstatement,
misrepresentation;
perversion,
falsification,
gloss,
suggestio falsi [Lat.];
exaggeration
etc.
549.
invention,
fabrication,
fiction;
fable,
nursery tale;
romance
etc.
(imagination)
515;
absurd story,
untrue story,
false story,
trumped up story,
trumped up statement;
thing devised by the enemy;
canard;
shave,
sell,
hum,
traveler's tale,
Canterbury tale,
cock and bull story,
fairy tale,
fake;
claptrap.
press agent's yarn;
puff,
puffery
(exaggeration)
549.
myth,
moonshine,
bosh,
all my eye and Betty Martin,
mare's nest,
farce.
irony;
half truth,
white lie,
pious fraud;
mental reservation
etc.
(concealment)
528.
pretense,
pretext;
false plea
etc.
617;
subterfuge,
evasion,
shift,
shuffle,
make-believe;
sham
etc.
(deception)
545.
profession,
empty words;
Judas kiss
etc.
(hypocrisy)
544;
disguise
etc.
(mask)
530.
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2 evasion
The deliberate act of failing to pay money:
— His evasion of all his creditors.
synoniem: nonpayment.
3 evasion
Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do:
— His evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible.
synoniemen: dodging, escape.
Roget 623:
abstention,
abstinence;
for bearance†;
refraining
etc.
v.;
inaction
etc.
681;
neutrality.
avoidance,
evasion,
elusion;
seclusion
etc.
893.
avolation†,
flight;
escape
etc.
671;
retreat
etc.
287;
recoil
etc.
277;
departure
etc.
293;
rejection
etc.
610.
shirker
etc.
v.;
truant;
fugitive,
refugee;
runaway,
runagate;
maroon.
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Roget 671:
escape,
scape;
avolation†,
elopement,
flight;
evasion
etc.
(avoidance)
623;
retreat;
narrow escape,
hairbreadth escape;
close call;
come off,
impunity.
[Means of escape]
loophole
etc.
(opening)
260;
path
etc.
627;
refuse
etc.
666;
vent,
vent peg;
safety valve;
drawbridge,
fire escape.
reprieve
etc.
(deliverance)
672;
liberation
etc.
750.
refugee
etc.
(fugitive)
623.
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Nederlands: ontduiking
4 evasion
The act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver.
Nederlands: evasie, uitvlucht, voorwendsel, ontwijking, ontsnapping
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