Definition for Dodging:

• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

Synonyms for Dodging:

• adj.

  •shifty (adjective)
  • un principled,
  • un honest,
  • un-truthful,
  • more equivocating,
  • most conniving,
  • most prevaricatory,
  • more prevaricative,
  • most dodging,
  • most shuffling,
  • most contriving,
  • Unhonest,
  • under-hand,
  • mendacious,
  • most equivocating,
  • most prevaricative,
  • most unhonest,
  • more unhonest,
  • more dodging,
  • under hand,
  • more conniving,
  • dis-honest,
  • un-principled,
  • more contriving,
  • dis honest,
  • fly by night,
  • more prevaricatory,
  • un-honest,
  • more shuffling.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • dodging.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • forbearance,
  • elusion,
  • restraint,
  • absention,
  • escapism,
  • elusions,
  • nonparticipation,
  • steering clear of,
  • eschewal.
  •circumvention (noun)
  • by passes,
  • eludings,
  • by pass,
  • circumventings.
  •communication (noun)
  • dodge,
  • scheme.
  •dodging (noun)
  • avoidance,
  • turning away.
  •escape (noun)
  • extrication,
  • elopements,
  • by-passing,
  • elusiveness,
  • elopement,
  • out,
  • fadeout,
  • OUTS,
  • circumvention,
  • duckings,
  • hegira,
  • extrications,
  • runaround.
  •evasion (noun)
  • equivocatings,
  • fudgings,
  • pre-texts,
  • copouts,
  • co-pouts,
  • co pout,
  • obliquenesses,
  • fugivities,
  • evadings,
  • co pouts,
  • fancy footworks,
  • pre-text,
  • pre texts,
  • cop outs,
  • co-pout,
  • fugivitenesses,
  • pre text.
  •lam (noun)
  • escapement.

• v.

  •avoiding (verb)
  • eluding,
  • shirking,
  • Abstaining,
  • declining,
  • sidestepping,
  • Skipping,
  • shunning,
  • Escaping,
  • averting,
  • Circumventing,
  • Recoiling,
  • shrinking,
  • Evading,
  • Avoiding,
  • ducking,
  • bypassing.
  •escaping (verb)
  • getting away,
  • Emigrating,
  • breaking out.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • equivocation,
  • elude,
  • diversion,
  • nonpayment,
  • prevarication,
  • lurk,
  • caviling,
  • lurching,
  • displace,
  • blinking,
  • Shelving,
  • bickering,
  • shifting,
  • encircling,
  • clock-watching,
  • blocking,
  • malingering,
  • subterfuge,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • cartage,
  • Dipping,
  • Deflecting,
  • sidestep,
  • porterage,
  • escape valve,
  • Tabling,
  • weasel word,
  • dousing,
  • Shying,
  • transplantation,
  • alter,
  • vary,
  • device,
  • lam,
  • importation,
  • transition,
  • ferry,
  • Hoaxing,
  • disheartening,
  • misrepresenting,
  • false statement,
  • transit,
  • transport,
  • avoid,
  • traction,
  • eschew,
  • replace,
  • limit,
  • double-talk,
  • Flinching,
  • portage,
  • chicane,
  • fetching,
  • cheating,
  • limitation,
  • design,
  • Vection,
  • skirting,
  • wafture,
  • plan,
  • sophistry,
  • stratagem,
  • besieging,
  • transportation,
  • tergiversation,
  • shuffling,
  • chicanery,
  • outline,
  • relief valve,
  • Leisure Activity,
  • nit-picking,
  • hairsplitting,
  • overreaching,
  • reserve,
  • getting away from,
  • Manipulating,
  • shirk,
  • hesitation,
  • refuse,
  • disconcerting,
  • trickery,
  • fencing,
  • dancing,
  • confusing,
  • restriction,
  • soldiering,
  • distraction,
  • cooking,
  • Vectitation,
  • quibbling,
  • leakage,
  • Blenching,
  • evasiveness,
  • Outlining,
  • swerving,
  • passage,
  • hedging,
  • weasel words,
  • paltering,
  • Remitting,
  • skulking,
  • tax evasion,
  • Bilking,
  • slacking,
  • evade,
  • nitpicking,
  • interchange,
  • skulk,
  • Prevaricating,
  • bordering,
  • deception,
  • Equivocating,
  • falsifying,
  • excuse,
  • edge,
  • surrounding,
  • aversion,
  • leak,
  • Transumption,
  • schema,
  • hesitancy,
  • outwitting,
  • sketch,
  • freight,
  • deceit,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • shuffle,
  • take cover,
  • Shoveling,
  • translation,
  • Postponing,
  • form,
  • goofing off,
  • Conning,
  • flee,
  • steal,
  • Captiousness,
  • intrigue,
  • Boggling,
  • safety valve,
  • contrivance,
  • pastime,
  • exportation,
  • pussyfooting,
  • outsmarting,
  • line,
  • suppressio veri,
  • outfoxing,
  • Fudging,
  • shun,
  • transmission,
  • Tricking,
  • lying,
  • carting,
  • plot,
  • transposition,
  • creep,
  • beleaguering,
  • Deferring,
  • strategy,
  • draft,
  • Vecture,
  • dispersion,
  • Parrying,
  • artifice,
  • mendacity,
  • Flurrying,
  • wiling,
  • circumvent,
  • eschewing,
  • defy,
  • outflow,
  • sneak,
  • reservation,
  • shipment,
  • feinting,
  • flight,
  • gestation,
  • truancy,
  • scheming,
  • cunning,
  • system.

Paraphrases for Dodging:

• Forward Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Escaping.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Ignoring, Evading, Avoiding, Circumventing, bypassing, Refraining, Denying, Resisting, Preventing, averting, sparing, shirking, ducking.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    sidestepping, eluding.

Antonyms for Dodging:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    endurance, toleration, abidance, submission.

Dodging Sentence Examples:

• There is no dodging the consequences of sin; that is absolutely impossible.

• And I felt a slight chill on the warmth of my hope, because that bright sail, brilliantly and furtively dodging along in our wake, must be the product of Manuel's inspiration, urged to perseverance by the fear of O'Brien.

Homophones for Dodging:

• descensus, diggings, De Kooning, dugong, diagnosis, disengage, designing, dowsing, digenesis, dismiss, Des Moines, dozens, degaussing, digging, dismaying, ducking, dousing, dehiscence, Dow Jones, dashing, dysgenesis, duskiness, death camas, dodecanese, dizziness, disowning, dickens, dicksoniaceae, decency, docking, dyskinesia, dishwashing, disco music, deaconess, dysgenics, dysgenic, diagnose, diogenes, dogging, De Quincey, dissonance, ditchmoss, dhodhekanisos, diakinesis.

Hypernym for Dodging:

• n.

  • act
    goldbricking, circumvention, malingering, slacking, escape mechanism, skulking, goofing off, soldiering, shirking.

Hyponym for Dodging:

• n.

  • act
    neglect, nonperformance, carelessness, negligence.
  • communication
    untruth, falsehood, falsity.