EVASIVELY Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

evasively

adverb

Definition of evasively

as in ambiguously

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Certain apparently magical happenings in the novel are treated ambiguously, but either way, the titular character’s study of Buddhist practices is an asset in his journey.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 July 2026
Moore hated White’s book Stuart Little, in which a mouse is born to a human woman, and which ends abruptly and ambiguously, with the little mouse’s future very much up to the reader.

— Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026

Definition of ambiguously

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But the fallout from the smoke migration may be helping the administration indirectly by easing pushback from northern border-state GOP lawmakers.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 21 July 2026
In its recent report, 99% of 72 public tenders analyzed directly or indirectly excluded alternatives to Microsoft products, despite procurement rules prohibiting specifications that unnecessarily restrict competition.

— Lidia Kurasinska, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of indirectly

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In May, the ICE agent was charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime.

— Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
But the divisions con-tinued, particularly when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French Army, was falsely accused of being a spy in 1894.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

Definition of falsely

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Jennifer Ruffcorn, spokesperson for Texas Health and Human Services, confirmed that Livingston was erroneously enrolled in Healthy Texas Women.

— Rachana Pradhan, NPR, 20 July 2026
Knappman — the man who reached out to Baldwin last year to fine Anna’s grave — said his grandmother, Maude, erroneously told him that her parents died in a fire in Baltimore.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026

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