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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
evasive
    adj 1: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief,
           constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
    2: avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially
       enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
evasive \e*va"sive\ ([-e]*v[=a]"s[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. ['e]vasif.
   See Evade.]
   Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling;
   avoiding by artifice.
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         Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest,
         Answered evasive of the sly request.     --Pope.
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         Stammered out a few evasive phrases.     --Macaulay.
   -- E*va"sive*ly, adv. -- E*va"sive*ness, n.
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