Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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deceit | Yes | No | No | No |
evasion | Yes | No | No | No |
deceit (noun) | evasion (noun) |
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the act of deceiving | the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver |
the quality of being fraudulent | nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do |
a misleading falsehood | the deliberate act of failing to pay money |
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth |