adjective
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tending or seeking to evade; avoiding the issue; not straightforward
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avoiding or seeking to avoid trouble or difficulties
to take evasive action
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hard to catch or obtain; elusive
Other Word Forms
- evasively adverb
- evasiveness noun
- nonevasive adjective
- nonevasively adverb
- nonevasiveness noun
- unevasive adjective
- unevasively adverb
- unevasiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of evasive
Example Sentences
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Such musings are engaging, though they can also seem fussy and evasive.
Speaking on the eve of his side's home game against high-flying Aston Villa, he was evasive when asked about the United job.
From Barron's
Zang, in her report, called those denials “not credible,” describing his testimony as “evasive and self contradictory.”
From Los Angeles Times
In the past, the author explains, he tended to ignore birds because most “were too small, too evasive, too difficult to know, requiring too much patience and too much submission to their tricky little habits.”
In his review, Joseph Horowitz called the book “as honest and unassuming as Stokowski was evasive and flamboyant.”
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