She gave an evasive answer.
They took evasive action to avoid capture.
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Poehler’s portrayal of the attorney general was of an evasive Trump loyalist who loves to play the victim and insult senators.—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025 Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh and OC Greg Roman have been evasive on the matter of the Hassan Haskins–Kimani Vidal workload split.—Andy Behrens, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025 Both have been evasive when asked about their relationship status in various interviews.—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025 The huge amounts of space junk in orbit, ranging from nuts and bolts to rocket fairings and dead satellites, pose a serious hazard to satellites and the International Space Station, which has to regularly take evasive action to dodge space shrapnel, much of which is moving faster than a bullet.—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evasive
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Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(a)(4), an evasive or incomplete answer to an interrogatory or to a question at a deposition is treated as a failure to answer and may be subject to an opponent's motion to compel an answer.
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