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evasive
/ ɪˈveɪsɪv /
adjective
- tending or seeking to evade; avoiding the issue; not straightforward
- avoiding or seeking to avoid trouble or difficulties
to take evasive action
- hard to catch or obtain; elusive
Derived Forms
- eˈvasiveness, noun
- eˈvasively, adverb
Other Words From
- e·vasive·ly adverb
- e·vasive·ness noun
- none·vasive adjective
- none·vasive·ly adverb
- none·vasive·ness noun
- une·vasive adjective
- une·vasive·ly adverb
- une·vasive·ness noun
Example Sentences
The law caught up with him; he was unwisely evasive about exactly which drugs he sold.
He did not however say that Putin lied, but rather that the Russian president's response was "suspiciously narrow" and evasive.
I've never seen London Mayor Boris Johnson look so awkward, evasive, and non-credible as in this BBC interview.
Newton escaped the world through nuttiness, Darwin through elaborate evasive courtesies and by farming out the politics to Huxley.
The rhetoric was mostly as empty of substance and evasive on details as a Paul Ryan budget.
With his evasive singularity was mingled a certain exotic odour like the distant perfume of a country well loved of the sun.
The weaknesses of Fieldas revealed in his two independent comedieswere of a nature more evasive, less capable of definition.
This time the monk was caught; but, in accordance with the habit of his brethren, his answer was as it was meant to be, evasive.
Nevertheless, mystified as he was, he concealed the details of their trip under an evasive answer when he returned to his room.
To our questions they returned evasive answers or were silent, and finally asked by what authority we had overhauled them.
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