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• evasive — [[t]ɪve͟ɪsɪv[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If you describe someone as evasive, you mean that they deliberately avoid giving clear direct answers to questions. He was evasive about the circumstances of his first meeting with Stanley Dean... Direct questions… …   English dictionary

• evasive — adjective Date: 1637 tending or intended to evade ; equivocal < evasive answers > • evasively adverb • evasiveness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• evasive — adjective the judge was infuriated by the defendant s evasive answers Syn: equivocal, prevaricating, elusive, ambiguous, noncommittal, vague, inexplicit, unclear; roundabout, indirect; informal cagey, shifty, slippery See note at frank …   Thesaurus of popular words

• evasive answer — One which consists in refusing either to admit or to deny a matter in a direct, straight forward manner as to which the person is necessarily presumed to have knowledge. Under Fed.R.Civil P. 37, an evasive answer is considered and treated as a… …   Black's law dictionary

• evasive answer — One which consists in refusing either to admit or to deny a matter in a direct, straight forward manner as to which the person is necessarily presumed to have knowledge. Under Fed.R.Civil P. 37, an evasive answer is considered and treated as a… …   Black's law dictionary

• evasive — adj. 1 seeking to evade something. 2 not direct in one s answers etc. 3 enabling or effecting evasion (evasive action). 4 (of a person) tending to evasion; habitually practising evasion. Derivatives: evasively adv. evasiveness n …   Useful english dictionary

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