avoiding, tending to shirk, elusive
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Evasive Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutTending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
evasive
\e*va"sive\ (?), a. [cf. f. évasif. 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. stammered out a few evasive phrases. -- e*va"sive*ly, adv. -- e*va"sive*ness, n.
Adjective
1. deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
(similar) equivocal, ambiguous
2. avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
(similar) protective
3. skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
(synonym) elusive
(similar) artful
Evasive Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Evasion may refer to:
- Évasion, a Canadian French-language travel and adventure television channel
- Evasion (ethics), a deceptive act
- Evasion (law), to avoid government mandate through specious means (tax evasion, for example)
- Evasion (book), a book adapted from a zine of the same title
- Evasion (network security), techniques to by-pass network security devices
- Citroën Evasion, a Eurovan minivan
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