Examples of evasive in a Sentence
She gave an evasive answer.
They took evasive action to avoid capture.
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Pressed on what had gone wrong, the men were talked in evasive circles, insisting that the team of 18 people behind $HAWK had not sold their tokens.
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
According to the yacht's captain, the suspicious boats followed the vessel's course for two hours, despite evasive maneuvers deployed to shake them off.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
Cruises take evasive action Hurricane Milton is also diverting cruises in the region.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
In the aftermath of her tumultuous divorce in 2021 from Mulaney, whose comedy often touched on his relationship with Tendler, her work, including several ongoing photography projects, was quieter, more evasive.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
According to the yacht's captain, the suspicious boats followed the vessel's course for two hours, despite evasive maneuvers deployed to shake them off.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
Cruises take evasive action Hurricane Milton is also diverting cruises in the region.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
In the aftermath of her tumultuous divorce in 2021 from Mulaney, whose comedy often touched on his relationship with Tendler, her work, including several ongoing photography projects, was quieter, more evasive.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Evasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evasive. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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evasive
adjective
eva·sive
i-ˈvā-siv 
-ziv
: tending or meant to evade
gave an evasive answer
evasively
adverb
evasiveness
noun
Legal Definition
evasive
adjective
eva·sive
i-ˈvā-siv, -ziv
: tending or intending to evade
Note: Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(a)(4), an evasive or incomplete answer to an interrogatory or to a question at a deposition is treated as a failure to answer and may be subject to an opponent's motion to compel an answer.
evasively
adverb
evasiveness
noun
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