Circumvention

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The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. A school in which he learns sly circumvention. - Cowper.

Noun

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circumvention - the act of evading by going around

CIRCUMVENTION, torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decree. Tech. Dict. It has the same sense in the civil law. Dig. 50, 17, 49 et 155; Id. 12, 6, 6, 2; Id. 41, 2, 34. Vide Parphrasis.

avoidance, avoiding reaction, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing, buck-passing, calculated deception, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defense mechanism, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dodge, duck, dupery, elusion, elusiveness, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, equivocation, escape, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, foiling, fond illusion, fooling, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, frustration, getting around, getting round, hallucination, hoodwinking, illusion, jink, kidding, mirage, neutrality, nonintervention, noninvolvement, outguessing, outmaneuvering, outwitting, overreaching, passing the buck, phantasm, prevention, putting on, refraining, self-deception, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, the runaround, the slip, thwarting, trickiness, tricking, victimization, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking, zigzag