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

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

adj. Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.

adj. Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action.

adj. Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

Using evasion or artifice to avoid; shuffling; equivocating.

Containing or characterized by evasion; artfully contrived for escape or elusion: as, an evasive answer; an evasive argument.

Escaping the grasp or observation; not easily seized or comprehended; faintly or indistinctly perceived; elusive; vanishing: as, an evasive thought or idea; evasive colors.

adj. avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire

adj. deliberately vague or ambiguous

" 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he called evasive or dishonest behavior in depositions and for maintaining an inapt claim long after they should have withdrawn it."

protective    equivocal    ambiguous   

elusive    shuffling    deceitful    slippery    dodgy    tergiversant    prevaricative    shifty   

ambiguous    cautious    unsatisfactory    mislead    furtive    cryptic    reticent    devious    uncertain    elusive