Crossword clues for dodging
dodging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
--Milton.-
To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. The act of dodging; a dodge. vb. (present participle of dodge English)
WordNet
n. 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]
a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery [syn: dodge, scheme]
deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening [syn: avoidance, turning away, shunning]
Usage examples of "dodging".
Dodging past servers with flagons and wooden trenchers, Alec made his way through the crowd.
He closed on Atrides, spear stabbing his shield right on the boss but the bronze could not drive through, so back he drew to his ranks, dodging death, glancing left and right, fearing a lance would graze his flesh.
Information Amos Bulla fielded new questions like a man before a firing squad dodging bullets.
Around elbows, by tall boots, dodging lit cigarettes and drippy drinks held low and cool-like, Tiny Doom and Pig achieve open air without incident and then, sack in hand, set out for the Big Shakedown.
After several minutes of circling and dodging through the residential streets, suddenly we were back on the Embarcadero, heading south this time, back towards the Ferry Building.
The traffickers machinegun each other, dodging through the machinery and silos, storage bins, haylofts and mangers of a vast red barn.
Air shuttles full of visitors zoomed this way and that, dodging herds of winged lizards and flocks of blue-winged gibbit birds.
In dodging this, Habeas displayed an agility as surprising as his appearance.
He hurried through the crowd, dodging around clumps of haggling tradesmen and farmers, at one point ducking through a display of melons and almost toppling a pyramid of the great pale fruit.
At the end of summer the work was slackened somewhat, so there was more time for sport: spell-boat races down in the harbor, feats of illusion in the courts of the Great House, and in the long evenings, in the groves, wild games of hide-and-seek where hiders and seeker were both invisible and only voices moved laughing and calling among the trees, following and dodging the quick, faint werelights.
The man who noted him was a hunchy, wise-faced fellow who had a way of dodging out of sight.
Tale by Rebecca Moesta Dodging a pair of potentially meddlesome storm-troopers, Reegesk clutched his treasures and scurried with rodentlike efficiency into the narrow alley beside his favorite drinking establishment in Mos Eisley.
I avoided him by dodging into the oilery by a side door which happened to stand ajar.
Suddenly Picaro, in the company of a beautiful woman reporter, is on a harrowing cross-country odyssey in pursuit of a truth too extraordinary to guess, dodging enemies who want him dead-and want their evidence back.
She quickstepped back, parrying some blows, dodging others, stepping around trees, kicking up wet pine straw as she moved.