About The Word Evasive
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Evasive
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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 \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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