Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Resorting
Both words in one sentence
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Gary, Spongebob Squarepants snail refuses to let Spongebob bathe him in one episode even resorting to TELEPORTATION to avoid getting in the bath.
Source: Hates Baths - Draft Dodging: A variety of men try to avoid conscription by pretending to be ill, resorting to injecting gasoline into their legs and other outlandish methods (all played for comedy).
- Lady Macbeth: Anna is more than ready to step up and supply the gangsterism her husband seeks to avoid; she's the first to suggest resorting to threats, and is capable of ruthlessness even where her husband is not.
Source: Film / A Most Violent Year
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