Synonym: elusive. Similar words: pervasive, persuasive, crevasse, devastate, pervasion, invasion, devastating, passive. Meaning: [ɪ'veɪsɪv] 
adj. 1. deliberately vague or ambiguous 2. avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire 3. skillful at eluding capture.
adj. 1. deliberately vague or ambiguous 2. avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire 3. skillful at eluding capture. 
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31 Press him too closely about his family, though, and he becomes oblique and evasive.
32 The alarm call stimulates other nearby blackbirds to take evasive action.
33 It had been a strange conversation: Riverton was nervous, evasive.
34 Blood had been spilt this time despite all the evasive tactics and diplomacy.
35 Mickeen Gavan, the porter, had been unusually quiet, his eyes evasive.
36 He has been similarly evasive in answering questions about his marital fidelity and marijuana use.
37 Minatom remains evasive on the question of how the new storage sites will be financed.
38 The military experts taught her how to take evasive action and speed away from danger.
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39 He poised himself, blade weaving defensively before him, ready to take instant evasive action.
40 The Clinton administration has been evasive about this problem because there is no good solution to it.
41 He could neither move to attack nor take evasive action.
42 There are no more six-page effusions-only brief notes, and those evasive.
43 When we asked him where his wife was, O'Hare suddenly became evasive.
44 And all creatures who hear it in time take their own appropriate, evasive action.
45 When the current recession gripped, they decided to take evasive action.
46 Not bad for a graduate in literature and one who normally took evasive action at the sight of a screwdriver.
47 Julie Worden and Charlton Boyd meet in a skittish duet, marked by sudden departures, near misses and unexpected evasive leaps.
48 To begin with the voyage seemed a form of evasive action, a form of flight.
49 A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship.
50 Instead of adopting one or other of these policies, they have tried to hide their difference beneath an uneasy and evasive compromise.
51 "That was an evasive answer," Matt said.
52 If the enemy attacks, take evasive action.
53 Pilots are taught to take evasive action.
54 Give me not this evasive answer.
55 Daily requests led to evasive answers.
56 He was evasive and noncommittal.
57 She made some evasive reply.
58 Direct questions would almost certainly result in evasive answers.
59 His eyes gleamed with a smart, evasive light.
60 The German Foreign Office was evasive.
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