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English

Adjective

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

Translations

Finnish: välttelevä, kiertelevä

Finnish: väistö-

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Italian

Adjective

evasive

Feminine plural form of evasivo

Category:Italian adjective forms

fr:evasive io:evasive it:evasive pl:evasive ru:evasive te:evasive vi:evasive

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest,
Answered evasive of the sly request. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]

Stammered out a few evasive phrases. --Macaulay.
-- E*va"sive*ly, adv. -- E*va"sive*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet 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"
3: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each
more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline [syn: elusive]

Moby Dictionary
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