All cop-out synonyms

noun cop-out

• avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
• reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• defense — the act or power of defending, or guarding against attack, harm, or danger
• justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
• pretext — something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse: The leaders used the insults as a pretext to declare war.
• alibi — If you have an alibi, you can prove that you were somewhere else when a crime was committed.
• apology — An apology is something that you say or write in order to tell someone that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them.
• rationalization — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
• substitute — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
• claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
• pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
• argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
• action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
• ploy — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
• guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
• account — If you have an account with a bank or a similar organization, you have an arrangement to leave your money there and take some out when you need it.
• avowal — open acknowledgment or declaration
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• retort — to sterilize food after it is sealed in a container, by steam or other heating methods.
• vindication — the act of vindicating.
• profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
• assertion — a positive statement, usually made without an attempt at furnishing evidence
• plea — an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
• reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• affirmation — the act of affirming or the state of being affirmed
• statement — something stated.
• declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
• answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
• reply — followup
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• allegation — An allegation is a statement saying that someone has done something wrong.
• assurance — If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
• proof — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• routine — subroutine
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• unevasive — tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion: an evasive answer.
• sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.