[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dodge \dodge\, v. i. imp.  p. p. dodged; p. pr.  vb. n.
   dodging. of uncertain origin: cf. dodder, v., daddle,
   dade, or dog, v. t.
   1. to start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile;
      to shift place by a sudden start. --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to
      use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
      1913 webster

            some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster
see also:
dodged dodging 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dodging
     n 1: 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: evasion,
           escape
     2: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or
        trickery syn: dodge, scheme
     3: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from
        happening syn: avoidance, turning away, shunning
see also:
evasion escape dodge scheme avoidance turning away 
shunning 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 moby thesaurus words for "dodging":
   bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery,
   clock-watching, ducking, equivocation, evasion, fencing,
   goofing off, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, malingering,
   nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication,
   pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling,
   sidestepping, skulking, slacking, soldiering, subterfuge,
   suppressio veri, tax dodging, tax evasion, tergiversation,
   trichoschistism, truancy, weasel words, welshing

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