evasively

Definition of evasivelynext

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Adverb
  • Hacks star Jean Smart carried an ambiguously political message with her throughout the evening.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Jamian Juliano-Villani’s friezelike painting Women, 2024, offers a surreptitious turn on Marcel Duchamp and Eadweard Muybridge by featuring an ostensibly female figure with too many (and ambiguously gendered) appendages.
    Tim Griffin, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Adverb
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Further, Rouse received additional monetary support indirectly from Pace-O-Matic via the Our States Matter PAC, a federal PAC primarily funded by Pace-O-Matic and people associated with the company.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • And the fact that lots of these startups ultimately sell to other startups circuitously makes things even more insular.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This term means to praise someone excessively and insincerely.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • And, most recently, City Attorney Heather Ferbert falsely claimed the city could not legally use private trash haulers to reduce resident fees despite longstanding projections of substantial savings, the fact that surrounding cities have done so and that City Charter section 117c allows it.
    Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Investigators laid out a pattern of inaccurate and incomplete campaign finance reports across several election cycles, including improper contributions falsely reported as personal loans, acceptance of improper contributions and inflated cash-on-hand numbers.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • The Pitch reported in 2003 that the state had affirmed that King’s record was clean, and the charges were erroneously linked to his name.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Energy Secretary Chris Wright erroneously posted — and then deleted — a message that the US Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the strait near Iran, only for the White House to concede no operation had occurred.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Evasively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasively. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.

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