CIRCUMVENTION Synonyms

• a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center

• a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

• a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

• avoid something unpleasant or laborious

• a deception for profit to yourself

• not faithful to a spouse or lover

• violating accepted standards or rules

• agreement on a secret plot

• (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

• deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

• a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

• the deliberate act of failing to pay money

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

• exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage

• the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means

• a route shorter than the usual one

• destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

• the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• beat through cleverness and wit

• defeat by more skillful maneuvering

• beat through cleverness and wit

• a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

• a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea

• the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• pretending to be another person