Dodging

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to
        use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
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              Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity.
                                                    --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]
       2: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or
          trickery [syn: {dodge}, {scheme}]
       3: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from
          happening [syn: {avoidance}, {turning away}, {shunning}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "dodging":
     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