evasive
adjective
Origin of evasive
Examples from the Web for evasiveness
Contemporary Examples of evasiveness
Some on the American right, however, exhibit none of Obama's evasiveness.
His evasiveness has fueled Internet speculation that Rumsfeld may indeed be a lizard.
The responses were telling in their casuistry, their amorality, their evasiveness.
After years of evasiveness by the GOP, finally some frank talk about deficits from Obama and even from Hillary in China.
Historical Examples of evasiveness
He took care of Poseidon's sea-calves and was famous for his evasiveness.
Louise caught the hollowness, the evasiveness, of the explanation.
The EddyClarence L. Cullen
That the pair had some deeply-laid scheme on hand I knew from their evasiveness.
The Secrets of PotsdamWilliam Le Queux
He talked freely, and all evidence of suspiciousness or evasiveness was absent.
Studies in Forensic PsychiatryBernard Glueck
The act of speaking in a round about way; particularly a studied indirectness or evasiveness of speech.
OrthographyElmer W. Cavins