deflective
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He will need to draw upon all his reserves of deflective parliamentary wit.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
Smith also recommends a deflective approach for invading jackets, hair or feet.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
Shane Weber, a director at Pfizer, looked into Theranos in 2008 and concluded that the company’s responses to his technical questions were “oblique, deflective or evasive,” according to a memo used as evidence.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Kim’s Ray, guyishly deflective with tattoos running defiantly up his arms, allows the ending of his father’s life to transform him even without the benefit of mythological closure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2019
This leads us at once to another class of actions, i.e., deflective actions.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various
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