shun

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Avoiding action
abrogate
abrogation
avoid
avoid something like the plagueidiom
avoidance
elude
end-run
eschew
evade
evader
evasion
fiddle
insure
run for the hillsidiom
shirk
short circuit
shrink from something
shy away from something
steer
welch

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Stop having or doing something

Examples of eschewing

eschewing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The findings underscore the importance of measuring self- and other-blame separately and eschewing forcedchoice or polarized formats to measure causal or responsibility judgments.
He handles with care the matter of secularization, eschewing any assertion that religion was losing potency.
Moreover, we need to show that those reasons are more powerful than any reasons they might have for eschewing justice and acting on other dispositions.
She owes us a theory explaining which groups deserve this treatment and which do not, while eschewing the bad features of liberal justice.
However, if at some remote past we started as equals, in the important respects, how do we account for the eschewing inequities?
Most chapters are tightly focused on urban policy, by and large eschewing theory in place of the analysis of policies, governance and strategies.
But this disregards how the very process of eschewing outside ideas can itself define debate and shape the formation of specific policies.
Despite eschewing positivistic theories of urban growth and the paradigm of problem and response, the old historiography creeps into the collection.
These recent studies have developed a more nuanced view of campaign effects, eschewing early scholars' expectation that campaign messages manipulate easily persuadable voters.
Then in eschewing any concern for disease states, the authors are inadvertently no less reductionist than the level-specific approaches they would supersede.
My reasons for eschewing that thesis will become more evident here than in my earlier article.
Of course, this substantive component will alarm negative liberty theorists who uphold the principle of non-injury while eschewing that of mandatory beneficence.
Self-styled communitarians, emphasizing situatedness and eschewing abstraction, typically leave themselves with too few resources to differentiate among different sorts of communities.
Eschewing the abstractions of structuralism, social semiotics deals with the concrete situations in which, say, magazines, television programmes or forms of talk are used.
The title's significance comes from the eschewing of censorship for 'policing' to convey the variety of ways in which popular music can be regulated, restricted and repressed.
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