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Evasive

Evasive Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Evasive? [adj] skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline [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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Evasive: ambiguous \| artful \| elusive \| equivocal \| protective Related Terms \| Find terms related to Evasive: ambiguous \| amoral \| bickering \| cagey \| captious \| casuistic \| caviling \| choplogic \| close \| closemouthed \| conscienceless \| corrupt \| corrupted \| criminal \| crooked \| cunning \| dark \| deceitful \| devious \| discreet \| dishonest \| dishonorable \| dissembling \| doubtful \| dubious \| elusive \| elusory \| equivocal \| equivocating \| equivocatory \| felonious \| fishy \| fraudulent \| hairsplitting \| hedging \| ill-got \| ill-gotten \| immoral \| indirect \| insidious \| intangible \| logic-chopping \| malingering \| misleading \| nit-picking \| not kosher \| oblique \| paltering \| petty \| picayune \| prevaricating \| pussyfooting \| questionable \| quibbling \| rotten \| secret \| secretive \| shady \| shameless \| shifty \| shirking \| shuffling \| sinister \| sliding \| slippery \| sly \| sophistical \| suspicious \| tergiversant \| tergiversating \| trichoschistic \| tricky \| trifling \| trivial \| unclear \| uncommunicative \| unconscienced \| unconscientious \| unconscionable \| underhand \| underhanded \| unethical \| unprincipled \| unsavory \| unscrupulous \| unstraightforward \| vague \| weasel-worded \| without remorse \| without shame See Also \| Evasive In Webster's Dictionary \Eva"sive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]vasif. See {Evade}.] Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. --Pope. Stammered out a few evasive phrases. --Macaulay. -- {Eva"sively}, adv. -- {Eva"sive*ness}, n.

Evasive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Evasive?

[adj] skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
[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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Evasive In Webster's Dictionary

\E*va"sive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]vasif. See {Evade}.]
Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling;
avoiding by artifice.

      Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest,
      Answered evasive of the sly request.     --Pope.

      Stammered out a few evasive phrases.     --Macaulay.
-- {E*va"sive*ly}, adv. -- {E*va"sive*ness}, n.

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