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2 definitions found 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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