Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Sit on
Both terms in one sentence
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While trying to find or avoid one another, they deal with over-eager convention-goers, fans dressed up like them, and being forced to sit on a panel regarding their cartoon.
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Villainous Crossdresser: Dirty Coward Alfrid dresses up as a woman to avoid joining the men in battle, but it backfires on him pretty quickly when the actual women of Laketown aren't content to sit on the sidelines.
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