Shunning

Verb
shunning

Thesaurus
avoidance, avoiding reaction, circumvention, defense mechanism, dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, eschewal, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, getting around, jink, neutrality, nonintervention, noninvolvement, prevention, refraining, runaround, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, the runaround, zigzag