evasive

Speech parts

1. evasive - Adjective

2. evasive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shifty ambiguous vague elusive slippery tricky equivocal devious deceitful sly noncommittal cagey unclear elusory serpentine
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Antonyms

frank frankish direct franc considerable accessible
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Phrases with the word

be evasive evasive maneuvers evasive maneuver be evasive about

Examples

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. Charles Cooley

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. Upton Sinclair

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. Margaret Thatcher

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it. Priyanka Chopra

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. Ingmar Bergman

[Nelson] "... I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife." "What are those?" Janice is truly interested; she has never heard a man spell it out. He makes a cross evasive face. "You know – don't play naïve. Reassurance. Affection. Make the guy think he's great even if he isn't." John Updike

Close letter words and terms

evasin evasion evasion of taxes evasive action evasive answer evasive maneuver