evasive

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Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself
Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action
{a} elusive, equivocating, shuffling, sly
deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice
{s} avoiding, tending to shirk, elusive
If you take evasive action, you deliberately move away from someone or something in order to avoid meeting them or being hit by them. At least four high-flying warplanes had to take evasive action
skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
If you describe someone as evasive, you mean that they deliberately avoid giving clear direct answers to questions. He was evasive about the circumstances of his first meeting with Stanley Dean + evasively eva·sive·ly `I can't possibly comment on that,' Paul said evasively. + evasiveness eva·sive·ness She looked at him closely to see if his evasiveness was intentional
deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement" avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action
avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action
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evasive answer
misleading reply, deceptive response, cagey answer, indirect answer
evasive answer
(law) an answer by a defendant that fails to admit or deny the allegations set forth in the complaint
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{a} in an evasive or sly manner
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by avoidance, in an evasive manner
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with evasion; in an evasive manner; "her husband seemed to know many of the people who were named, but he replied evasively when asked who they were
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in an evasive manner
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{i} quality of being evasive, tendency to shirk or avoid
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The quality of being evasive
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intentionally vague or ambiguous
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