evasions in English
their adroit evasion of almost all questions
Use "evasions" in a sentence
1. Synonyms for Casuistries include speciousnesses, chicaneries, equivocations, sophisms, sophistries, casuistics, deceptions, deceptiveness, delusions and evasions
2. ‘Yes, their Coquettery and evasions can exasperate men looking for an unequivocal answer to riddles of life and love.’ ‘As with all personal questions, I tried to avoid answering, but she took my evasions to be an affirmative response.’
3. Yes, their Coquettishness and evasions can exasperate men looking for an unequivocal answer to riddles of life and love
4. Adjectivally through political dialogue, which needs to be predicated on human rights, and substantially, I would say, by the European Union by using a clearer and more substantive language with fewer evasions.
5. Nowadays, Curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence.
6. Chicane (n.) a word used in English in various senses, including "act of Chicanery, art of gaining advantage by using evasions or cheating tricks" (1670s), also "obstacles on a roadway" (1955), also a term in bridge (1880s), apparently all ultimately from an archaic verb Chicane "to trick" (1670s), from French Chicane "trickery" (16c.), from Chicaner "to pettifog, quibble" (15c., see Chicanery).