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evasive
adjective as in deceitful, tricky
Example Sentences
Paxton didn't either, though he has been criticized for having an evasive relationship with the press.
Other satellite operators are informed if there's likely to be a particularly close conjunction, in case they need to take evasive action.
But when it came to questions about whether she had had a happy childhood, Claire was evasive.
Aidan Eardley KC, for the solicitor general, told the court that Yaxley-Lennon had intended to repeat the false allegations, despite the injunction, and then take “evasive” measures.
But Hollywood is a place where hope frequently comes to die, and “They Went Another Way” is a comic primer on how good ideas are slowly strangled by an unwieldy and inefficient streamocracy whose lingua franca is the artfully evasive lie.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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