Usually means: Avoiding direct answers or actions.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. evasive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. evasive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. evasive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. evasive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. evasive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Evasive, evasive: Wordnik
  7. evasive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. evasive: Wiktionary
  9. evasive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. evasive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. evasive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. evasive: Dictionary.com
  13. evasive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Evasive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. evasive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. evasive: Rhymezone
  17. evasive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. evasive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. evasive: Free Dictionary
  20. evasive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. evasive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  2. evasive: Legal dictionary

(Note: See evasively as well.)

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adjective:  Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.
adjective:  Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action.

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