Associations to the word «Evasive»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

EVASIVE, adjective. Deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement".
EVASIVE, adjective. Avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope