deflective
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A clue as to Carrick's deflective attitude towards the allegations could be found in his interview with police, however.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025
Smith also recommends a deflective approach for invading jackets, hair or feet.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023
And he offered his deflective auto-response to several inquiries whose answers seemed easily retrieved.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2022
In emails introduced as evidence, Mr. Weber wrote to colleagues that the conclusions in Theranos’s reports were “not believable” and that the company’s answers to questions were “non-informative, tangential, deflective or evasive.”
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021
Air, finally, has so small an index of refraction and so small a deflective influence upon light, that the refractive effect is commonly imperceptible altogether.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
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