cop-out

Synonyms

avoidance, dodging, ducking, eluding, elusion, escape, evasion, out, shaking, shunning;

Near Antonyms

abidance, endurance, submission, toleration;

Related Words

bypassing, circumvention, runaround, sidestepping, skirting;

averting, precluding, prevention;

Synonyms

back down, back off, back out, fink out, renege;

Near Antonyms

adhere (to), follow through (with);

comply (with), fulfill (or fulfil), honor, keep, satisfy;

Related Words

chicken (out), wimp out;

backpedal, backtrack;

disavow, forswear (also foreswear), recall, recant, repudiate, retract, take back, unsay, withdraw;

beg off;

Phrases

go back on;