Crossword-Solution: AVOIDER 7 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Sally had always been so tenacious on the score of character, so very a prude, so determined an avoider of the 'men folk' (as she was wont contemptuously to call them), that we all were conscious of something like astonishment, on finding that she and her little handmaid had taken up their abode in one end of a spacious farmhouse belonging to the bluff old bachelor, George Robinson, of the Lea.

Once more he paused, set down the Bragi cup again, and asked-- "But Skald, say now, quickly, --Oft hast thou seen her-- This men avoider.

Bloodhounds are like that, Jimmy says, they avoid a disturbance; Faithful is a very good avoider, Jimmy says.

How Wat would have laughed in the old days at the idea of Jack ever troubling himself with a child, Jack, who had been best known, if not exactly as a child-hater, at least as a child-avoider.

Elijah Hill, the schoolteacher, and Berry Lawson, good-natured avoider of trouble, but wily and loyal to Nimbus, are interesting minor figures.