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evasive answer

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evasive
adjective
uk /ɪˈveɪ.sɪv/ us /ɪˈveɪ.sɪv/
answering questions in a way that is not direct or clear, especially because you do not want to give an ...
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answer
noun[C]
uk /ˈɑːn.sər/ us /ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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Examples of evasive answer


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I asked a question in this regard yesterday but received an evasiveanswer.
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I received an evasiveanswer pleading the law of libel as a deterrent to the publication of the name.
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Does he recall that when asked about this a few weeks ago he gave a very vague and evasiveanswer?
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Silence or an evasiveanswer will be unforgivable.
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I did not think that at all an evasiveanswer.
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Is not that really a rather evasiveanswer?
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It enables him, when put off by an evasiveanswer, to insist on something more being done.
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I received an evasiveanswer to that question.
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That is not meant to be an evasiveanswer.
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We have had that obstructive and evasiveanswer for three years now.
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It seems to me that that is an evasiveanswer.
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He made another evasiveanswer.
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I do not wish an evasiveanswer.
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That is a very evasiveanswer.
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He produced a remarkably evasiveanswer.
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Is that not a thoroughly evasiveanswer?
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That is an unbelievably evasiveanswer.
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The missionary tried to put them off with an evasiveanswer, not being very sure herself what those words meant.
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Blount gave an evasiveanswer and asked that the matter be postponed until the following day, which was granted.
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Is he aware that the evasive answers given the last time the matter came up have given cause for great concern?
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