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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
evasive/ɪˈveɪsɪv/

▶adjective tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation.

■ directed towards avoidance or escape: evasive action.

– derivatives
evasively adverb,
evasiveness noun.

'evasive' also found in these Oxford entries:

bob - end run - equivocate - evasion - fence - flannel - furtive - nancy story - prevaricate - runaround - shell game - shift - shifty - slippery - song - stonewall - straight - tergiversate

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