evasive

About 1.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.

   evasive behaviour

2. adjective Directed towards avoidance or escape

   take evasive action

Similar words

elusive artful equivocal ambiguous protective tricky noncommittal shifty vague unavoidable

Often followed by

action and answer answers reply or about maneuvers in

Word family

evasively evasiveness evasivenesses