Reverse Dictionary: EVADE

ADJECTIVES
► BEAT-THE-BUSH non-committal, evasive → E19 sl.
► DOUBLING evasive → 1581
► EVASORIOUS seeking to evade, evasive, shuffling → 1687 obs.
► GYROTWISTIVE full of tricks and evasions → 1869 Amer. sl.
► HEDGY evasive, non-committal → E20
► OFF-PUTTING evasive, calculated to delay, playing for time, trifling → 1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PREVARICATIVE untruthful; evasive → 1657
► PREVARICATORY untruthful; evasive, equivocating → 1645
► PUSSYFOOT characterized by excessive caution or hesitation; non-committal, evasive; also, carried out in an underhand manner; stealthy, furtive, sly → 1899
► PUSSY-FOOTED light-footed; also, excessively cautious or hesitant; non-committal, evasive → 1893
► PUSSYFOOTING evasive, non-committal; excessively cautious or hesitant → 1926
► SAPONACEOUS evasive; flattering → 1837
► SHIFTY undependable, untrustworthy, dishonest, evasive → 1884 Amer. dial.
► SLIDDERY sly, deceitful, shifty, evasive; not trustworthy → a1225 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SLIP-SKIN evasive, slippery → 1641 obs.
► SUBTERFUGING evasive; employing subterfuges → 1802 obs.
► TERGIVERSANT tergiversating, shuffling, evasive, shifty → 1710

ADVERBS
► FAINLESSLY without attempted evasion → 1652 obs.
► HEDGINGLY in an evasive or non-committal manner → L19

NOUNS
► AGAIN-CHARING a turning back, a return; evasion, escape → 1000 obs.
► ARSING shuffling, evading → Bk1898 Sc.
► BACK-JAR an ill-natured objection or opposition; an artful evasion → 1825 Sc.
► BAIL-OUT an evasion, an escape → 1990 US sl.
► CIRCUMLOCUTION evasive talk → 1518
► DOUBLING an evasion, a shift; deceitful or tricky action; double dealing → 1573
► E AND E evasion and escape → 1982 US Korean war usage
► EQUIVOCATION evasive talk → 1609
► FLANNEL insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; indirect or evasive talk; deceiving flattery, humbug, rubbish, nonsense→ 1927 Brit. sl.
► GAINTURN a turning back; an evasion → a1225 obs.
► GAN-BY an escape, evasion → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► GET-OFF an evasion, a subterfuge → M19
► GET-OUT a means of evasion; a withdrawal → L19 colloq.
► HOG-HOLE a means of evasion or escape → 1897 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► OFF-COME an excuse, pretense, evasion; an apology; a strange speech → a1700 Sc.
► OFF-PUT a delay; postponement; a pretense for delay, an evasion; a feint → 1730 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► OLD ARMY GAME, THE any form of trickery, deception, or evasion → 1910 Amer. sl.
► PARAFLING wordy equivocation, time-wasting evasion; the making of an ostentatious fuss → 1825 Sc.
► PARRYING trifling, equivocation, evasion → 1883 Sc.
► PUSSYFOOTISM excessive caution or hesitation; evasiveness; lack of commitment or resolve → 1916
► SALISBURY a polite evasion; a ‘white lie’ → L19 sl.
► SALVE a solution of a difficulty; also, a sophistical excuse or evasion → a1628 obs.
► SALVO a solution, explanation of a difficulty; an answer to an objection; an excuse or evasion → 1659 obs.
► TWISTING evasion, prevarication → 1856

NOUNS – PERSON
► BUCK-PASSER one who evades or avoids work and responsibility → 1933 Amer. dial.
► PALTERER an equivocator; a shuffler; one who plays fast and loose; a haggler, a huckster; one who acts evasively → 1589
► PALTRER an equivocator; a shuffler; one who plays fast and loose; a haggler, a huckster; one who acts evasively → 1589
► PUSSYFOOT a person who acts evasively, non-committally, or in an excessively cautious or hesitant manner; also, a person who behaves in an underhand manner; someone who proceeds stealthily or furtively → 1907
► PUSSYFOOTER a person who acts evasively, non-committally, or in an excessively cautious or hesitant manner → 1913
► WHIFFMAGIG a shifty or evasive person; a base person → 1871

VERBS
► ABROGATE to evade, neglect, or renounce an obligation or duty; to shirk a responsibility → 1904
► AGLY to avoid, to evade; to slip away from → 1250 obs.
► BAG IT to loaf, to malinger, to evade one’s duty → 1978 military sl.
► BEAT to avoid; to evade punishment or conviction → 1912 Amer. sl.
► BEAT THE DEVIL ROUND A BUSH to accomplish something by indirection or subterfuge; to be evasive or dilatory → 1908 Eng. dial.
► BLINK to ignore, to evade → Bk1911 Sc.
► COME THE DOUBLE to act in a treacherous or evasive manner → 1888 sl.
► CRAP OUT to evade something; to chicken out of something → Bk2006 US sl.
► DOMINICKER ►  DOMMERNECKER to show cowardice or lack of perseverance; to avoid, to evade → 1954 Amer. dial.
► DUCK AND DIVE to avoid or evade, esp. with regard to legality or responsibility; to dodge work; to shirk; hence, to avoid regular employment but make living nevertheless → 1960 UK rhyming sl. for ‘skive’ (to avoid or evade)
► DUFF to avoid, to evade, to dodge → 1866 Eng. dial. obs.
► EEL OUT to evade a situation or responsibility; to worm out of a situation → 1968 Amer. dial.
► FLANK to dodge, to evade → M19 US sl., orig. military
► FLANNEL to talk evasively to; to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk → 1941 Brit. sl.
► FUNK to try to back out of anything; to fight shy of; to wish or try to shirk or evade an undertaking, duty, etc. → 1834
► FUNK OUT to back out of something, owing to a lack of courage or spirit; to try to avoid or evade an undertaking, duty etc. → 1859
► GIVE A SHAKE to cold-shoulder; to rebuff; to evade, to escape → 1875 US
► GIVE ONE THE GAN-BY to give one the slip, to evade → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► GIVE THE COLD SHAKE to cold-shoulder; to rebuff; to evade, to escape → 1883 US
► GIVE THE DOUBLE to give the slip, to evade by stratagem → 1888
► GIVE THE GO-AROUND TO to avoid, to evade, to slight → E20 chiefly US
► GIVE THE GO-BY TO to pass, leave behind, elude, evade, disregard, or slight → E17
► ILLUDE to evade, to elude → 1553 obs.
► JOUK to dodge, to duck; to evade, to hide → 1834 Amer. dial.
► LEAP to evade, to neglect → 1658-9 obs.
► OIL to cheat; to act in an underhand way; to obtain unfairly; to evade → L19 sl.
► PLAY OFF to shirk responsibility; esp. to evade work; to absent oneself or escape from some responsibility without adequate excuse → 1783 Amer. dial.
► PREVENE to anticipate, to take precautions against a danger, evil, etc.; to prevent, to frustrate, to evade → 1485 chiefly Sc., obs.
► PUSSYFOOT to speak or act with excessive caution; to behave in a hesitant, non-committal, or evasive manner → 1910
► PUT BY to evade a question, etc.; to avoid or deflect the questioning, demands, etc. of a person → 1618 obs.
► SCHLENT to double-cross; to hoax; to be evasive → 1920s sl.
► SHUCK to be deceptive or evasive; to tell tall tales or lies; to fool around, to tease → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SKATE to evade duty → World War II armed forces usage
► SUBTERFUGE to escape, to evade; to get out of → 1641 obs.
► TAPDANCE to wriggle out of trouble, to evade something cleverly → 1920s sl., orig. US
► WAFFLE to speak or behave evasively; to equivocate → 1803 sl.
► WALTZ to evade or deceive someone → 1970s US sl.
► WEASEL to evade and equivocate; to use deceptive language; to deceive → 1956 sl.
► WHIP THE DEVIL ROUND THE STUMP to accomplish something by indirection or subterfuge; to be evasive or dilatory → 1776 Eng. dial.
► WORM OUT OF SOMETHING to evade or avoid an unpleasant situation → 1893 Amer. sl.
► WRIGGLE LIKE A CUT SNAKE to be evasive or shifty; to toady → 1940s  Aust. sl.
► WRIGGLE OUT ► WRIGGLE OUT OF to avoid or evade a responsibility or duty → 1848 sl.