evasion

逃避, 藉口

a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth; the deliberate act of failing to pay money; nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver