Evasive
[ɪ'veɪsɪv] or [ɪ'vesɪv]
Definition
(adj.) deliberately vague or ambiguous; 'his answers were brief, constrained and evasive'; 'an evasive statement' .
(adj.) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; 'pilots are taught to take evasive action' .
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Definition
(a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
Typist: Tyler
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Equivocating, shuffling, sophistical, elusive, elusory.
Typed by Ernestine
Examples
- The answer was evasive. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This proved to be a most knotty and intricate puzzle--tricky and evasive--always leading on and promising something, and at the last slipping away leaving the work undone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The world was full of such evasive philosophy and theological stuff in the opening centuries of the Christian era. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To this inquiry the girl returned the not uncommon, but rather evasive reply of 'I don't know; where do you come from? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- As Frederick II remained evasive, Gregory IX excommunicated him, proclaimed a crusade against him, and invaded his dominions in Italy (1228). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That is no answer; or rather it is a very irritating, because a very evasive one. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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