elude
verb (used with object)
to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade.
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As I looked, I said to myself over and over, "Is it possible this is a slayer of men, an eluder and defier of the law?"
From Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman