• At five, a deed may be avoided
• Avoided, as the law
• Circumvented
• Dodged
• Dodged, as taxes
• Ducked
• Fooled the IRS
• Gave the slip
• Gave the slip to
• Got around
• Got away
• Got away from
• Got out of
• Gotten out of
• Outwitted
• Sidestepped
• Skipped out
• Stayed away from
• Steered clear of
• Used weasel words
• Was elusive