All elusion synonyms

noun elusion

• out — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
• powder — British Dialect. a sudden, frantic, or impulsive rush.
• release — to lease again.
• slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• spring — String PRocessING language
• runaround — indecisive or evasive treatment, especially in response to a request: Ask for a raise and he'll give you the runaround.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• oblique — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
• 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.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• quibble — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
• routine — subroutine
• ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
• sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
• sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• fudging — a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• heresy — opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
• inconsistency — the quality or condition of being inconsistent.
• misinterpretation — An instance of misinterpreting.
• paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• aberration — An aberration is an incident or way of behaving that is not typical.
• ambiguity — If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
• bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
• casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
• cavil — If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
• faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
• flaw — Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
• illogicality — illogic.