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Evasive

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Adjective

1. evasive

deliberately vague or ambiguous

Example Sentences:
'his answers were brief, constrained and evasive'
'an evasive statement'

2. evasive

avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire

Example Sentences:
'pilots are taught to take evasive action'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Evasive

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adjective

1.

tending or seeking to evade; avoiding the issue; not straightforward

2.

avoiding or seeking to avoid trouble or difficulties

to take evasive action

3.

hard to catch or obtain; elusive

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Evasive

see synonyms of evasive

adjective

1.

tending or seeking to evade; not straightforward; tricky; equivocal

2.

hard to catch, grasp, etc.; elusive

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Evasive

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adj.

1. Inclined or intended to evade: took evasive action.

2. Intentionally vague or ambiguous; equivocal: an evasive statement.

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