EVA'SIVE, adjective Using evasion or artifice to avoid; elusive; shuffling; equivocating. He--answered evasive of the sly request. 1. Containing evasion; artfully contrived to elude a question, charge or argument; as an evasive answer; an evasive argument or reasoning.
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