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Avoiding the truth with enough finesse that it looks like a skill, not a crime.
means The act of dodging a question, duty, or direct answer without technically lying or refusing outright.
from From Latin evadere — 'to go out, escape, get away' — built from ex- ('out') plus vadere ('to go, to walk'). The same root gives us 'invade' and 'wade.' Originally it just meant physically slipping away from danger; by the 1500s English had bent it toward the rhetorical kind of escape — slipping away from a question instead of a sword.
- legal line
- tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion is prison
- origin
- from latin evadere, to escape or get away
- cousin word
- evasive answers dodge questions without technically lying
- body version
- your immune system evades pathogens, not just taxes