evasion
n 1: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly
avoids an unpleasant truth [syn: {equivocation}]
2: 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: {escape},
{dodging}]
3: the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent
or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit
maneuver