evasive

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"
    

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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90 Moby Thesaurus words for "evasive":
      ambiguous, amoral, bickering, cagey, captious, casuistic, caviling,
      choplogic, close, closemouthed, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted,
      criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, devious, discreet,
      dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, doubtful, dubious, elusive,
      elusory, equivocal, equivocating, equivocatory, felonious, fishy,
      fraudulent, hairsplitting, hedging, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral,
      indirect, insidious, intangible, logic-chopping, malingering,
      misleading, nit-picking, not kosher, oblique, paltering, petty,
      picayune, prevaricating, pussyfooting, questionable, quibbling,
      rotten, secret, secretive, shady, shameless, shifty, shirking,
      shuffling, sinister, sliding, slippery, sly, sophistical,
      suspicious, tergiversant, tergiversating, trichoschistic, tricky,
      trifling, trivial, unclear, uncommunicative, unconscienced,
      unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical,
      unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vague,
      weasel-worded, without remorse, without shame