Thesaurus: evasive

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1. a. Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
2. adj. deliberately vague or ambiguous
3. adj. avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire
4. Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. Pope. Stammered out a few evasive phrases. Macaulay. -- E*va"sive*ly , adv. -- E*va"sive*ness, n.
5. Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling;avoiding by artifice.Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive ofthe sly request. Pope.Stammered out a few evasive phrases. Macaulay.-- E*va"sive*ly , adv.-- E*va"sive*ness, n.
6. j:100 s. deliberately vague or ambiguous s. avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire