(v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
(v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
(v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
(v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
(v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
(n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.
(2) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(3) Eric King, deputy director of PI, said: "More than a year after Snowden, the British government continues to dodge the question of just how integrated the operations of GCHQ and NSA truly are.
(4) End diastolic and systolic volume and ejection fractions were calculated by two methods (Ahlberg and Dodge).
(5) The effects of electroconvulsive shock (ECS) on spatial memory first reported by Shavalia, Dodge, and Beatty (1981, Behavioral and Neural Biology, 31, 261-273) were systematically replicated in two experiments.
(6) But another worry, says Dodge, is that the price of Iraq's freedom will turn out to be an authoritarian political system.
(7) We have so much work to do to bridge the gulf and, at the moment, the sector finds it easier to dodge the issue than tackle it head on."
(8) "This would require them to prove that YouView is dominant, which could be tricky, given the state of the market," said Becket McGrath, a partner at law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
(9) The increase in electricity prices over the past 12 months is the lowest since September 2007, and taking away the fourth quarter, affected by the introduction of the carbon price, the trend is clearly towards lower rises in the future: The Liberal party, by virtue of being in opposition from 2007 to 2013, dodged the big bullet of electricity prices.
(10) The candidate was crushed with just 4.9% of the vote and was forced to dodge Sydney Leathers, a woman who said she had received sexual messages from him, while giving his concession speech.
(11) We all have plenty to fear | Jonathan Freedland Read more On Tuesday, the Times headlined its editorial about the election “Tough Choice”, as if the decision between a woman who used the wrong email server and a racist, sexist, tax-dodging bully wasn’t, in fact, the easiest choice in the world.
(12) "But we will not tolerate abuse of the system by people trying to dodge their tax obligations."
(13) You have somebody that’s gonna run this country right, and I would be willing to bet – because I think this is one of the great cities, one of the most beautiful cities in the world – and you have a great leader now, you have a great president, you have a tough president.” He had dodged and also praised his host.
(14) David Cameron has dodged an imminent revolt by 60 Tory backbenchers over the lifting of border controls on Bulgarians and Romanians, as the government revealed that the immigration bill would be delayed until the new year.
(15) On saying this, I don’t close my eyes to the endemic corruption and tax-dodging in Greece (nor indeed, does the outsiders’ movement Syriza, which came to power campaigning against just these vices).
(16) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(17) This guy can buy silence, but that isn't offered to most people who are caught fare dodging."
(18) "Tax dodging is not easily defeated, so companies should be required to report additional information like sales volumes, assets and profits to put their payments into context.
(19) Aims In 2013 our campaign achieved commitments from the UK government at the G8 for action on tax dodging .
(20) Full-blooded hypothecation would in theory dodge some of these weaknesses.
Flinch
Definition:
(v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
(v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
(n.) The act of flinching.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings could not be attributed to changes in flinch threshold as neither treatment nor time affected this measure.
(2) I noticed one of them hit him I don’t know where, but I saw him flinch,” Wilson said.
(3) Lesions of the central nucleus also decreased reactivity to shock (jumping and flinching) during shock presentation.
(4) She did not flinch when hostage-takers took over the Iranian embassy; most were killed by the SAS.
(5) Based on the mean thresholds obtained from a flinch-jump test, 8 rats were tested in a startle inhibition procedure with prestimulus intensities of 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, and 0.8 mA.
(6) Our forebears never flinched from modernising the Conservative party, so why should we?
(7) Burnham said that broadcasters cannot "flinch" from the need to look after contestants.
(8) Publication of the Prince Charles 'black spider' letters: live Read more But Kristina Kyriacou, the royal’s top media adviser, barely flinched when duty called as her protectee was confronted by the dogged Channel 4 reporter Michael Crick on Tuesday.
(9) In a second experiment it was observed that neither the shock-induced flinch nor the jump threshold was elevated after nigral lesions, suggesting that these lesions do not decrease the aversive motivational properties of foot shock.
(10) No change in the flinch-jump threshold was detected.
(11) Microinjections of morphine (10 microgram) at both sites significantly elevated the threshold of response in the flinch-jump test; but only at medial sites did naloxone (1 microgram) antagonise this effect.
(12) striker Clint Dempsey’s upcoming debut rap album , The Redux, choice rhymes including: “My game face won’t never flinch, “I’m beast mode, Marshawn Lynch.” O FIVERÃO LETTERS “We’ve all been there with Mario Balotelli (yesterday’s Bits and Bobs).
(13) This is the first time he even flinched, he smiled, went to mutter something, thought better of it and just carried on reading the paper.
(14) According to this hypothesis, the failure of these teratments to disrupt escape responding may be due to the fact that the unconditioned stimulus generates reflexive motor responses (flinch, jump, etc.)
(15) We know that when danger arrived in the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school's staff did not flinch.
(16) For the coverage that I am getting – the fact that it covers previous conditions, the fact that it doesn’t flinch at cancer treatments, the fact that my copays are reasonable and the pharmacy prescription requirements allow me to get the drugs I need – it’s a remarkable bargain.
(17) When it emerged that Jeremy Corbyn’s first act as leader was to go to the pub and sing the Red Flag , bankers flinched and Tories sneered, yet it was no surprise to me.
(18) Nociceptive thresholds were measured by the flinch-jump test.
(19) Now the sleeves are rolled up for the business of telling the press his party will flinch from any coalition with Ukip or the Scots.
(20) After both players tussled, mutually kicking out, television replays suggested Cissé was complaining Evans had spat in his eye but other images showing the United centre-half flinching indicated that this was far from one-sided.