evasive

IPA: ɪvˈeɪzɪv

adjective

  • Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.
  • Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action.
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Examples of "evasive" in Sentences

  • Taking a comment out of context and calling it "evasive" is quote-mining.
  • Blathazar has signed on to adapt his film for a subtitle evasive North American audience.
  • In fairness, though, the repetition of the sounds makes Obama sound hesitant and evasive, which is unfair.
  • A U.N. spokesman says the Iraqis sent a new letter to clarify an earlier one which the United States called evasive, but a senior administration official dismissed the new letter accusing Iraq of playing games of denial and deception.
  • Grissom Machinery Co., for leaving essential words out of their paraphrase of a statute in a complaint, for what he called evasive or dishonest behavior in depositions and for maintaining an inapt claim long after they should have withdrawn it.
  • Cardinal Rigali initially responded to the February grand jury report with what critics called evasive language, saying there were no priests in active ministry "who have an admitted or established allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against them."
  • Tuesday night at 7, after a nine-month hunt for a suspect they described as evasive and uncooperative, law enforcement agents from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals arrested Monique Smith, 19, along Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick.
  • It is more particularly for the sake of the concluding lines that I have quoted this passage; for evidently no portrait of Hawthorne at this period is at all exact which, fails to insist upon the constant struggle which must have gone on between his shyness and his desire to know something of life; between what may be called his evasive and his inquisitive tendencies.
  • District Court for the Northern District of Georgia rapped the plaintiffs lawyers and their client, North Carolina-based Costa & Grissom Machinery Co., for leaving essential words out of their paraphrase of a statute in a complaint, for what he called evasive or dishonest behavior in depositions and for maintaining an inapt claim long after they should have withdrawn it.

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