Usually means: Avoiding direct engagement with topic.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. deflecting: Merriam-Webster
  2. deflecting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deflecting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Deflecting, deflecting: Wordnik
  5. deflecting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deflecting: Wiktionary
  7. Deflecting, deflecting: Dictionary.com
  8. deflecting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Deflecting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Deflecting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. deflecting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. deflecting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. deflecting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deflecting: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deflecting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See deflect as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deflect)

verb:  (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.
verb:  (transitive, ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players.
verb:  (intransitive) To deviate from an original path or position.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).
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