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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "circumvention" in a sentence

    circumvention example sentences

    circumvention


    1. smuggling, or through circumvention of the law


    2. The coal-hole is stored with cabbages and carrots, buried, with cunning circumvention of decay, in sand


    3. I lay making plans for the circumvention of Charlotte, and rejecting them one after the other as too uncousinly; and when I had made my head ache with the difficulty of uniting a becoming cousinliness with the cold-bloodedness necessary for shaking her off, I spent my time feebly deprecating the superabundance of cousins in the world


    4. So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil


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    "circumvention" definitions

    the act of evading by going around