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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evasive \E*va"sive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]vasif. See {Evade}.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
evasive
adj 1: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief,
constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
2: avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially
enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
3: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each
more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline [syn: {elusive}]
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