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31evasive — Synonyms and related words: ambiguous, amoral, bickering, cagey, captious, casuistic, caviling, choplogic, close, closemouthed, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, devious, discreet, dishonest,… …
32evasive — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deceptive, misleading, equivocal, shifty; see dishonest 1 , false 2 , obscure 1 , sly 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. deceitful, elusive, slippery, equivocal, shifty, hedging, tricky, shuffling, dissembling,… …
33evasive — e·va·sive || ɪ veɪsɪv adj. avoiding, tending to shirk, elusive …
34evasive answer — misleading reply, deceptive response, cagey answer, indirect answer …
35evasive — a. Equivocating, shuffling, sophistical, elusive, elusory, shifty …
36evasive — adj prevaricative, quibbling, equivocating, shuffling; tergiversating, vacillating, wavering; ambiguous, amphibolic, elusive, slippery, evanescent, fleeting; misleading, roundabout, circuitous, ambagious, hedging, weasel worded, double tongued;… …
37evasive — eva·sive …
38evasive — adjective Syn: equivocal, prevaricating, elusive, ambiguous, non committal, vague, unclear, oblique …
39evasive — e•va•sive [[t]ɪˈveɪ sɪv[/t]] adj. tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion • Etymology: 1715–25 e•va′sive•ly, adv. e•va′sive•ness, n …
40evasive — Alo alo, pohihiu …
