e·va·sive a.  Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
  Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest,
  Answered evasive of the sly request.   --Pope.
     Stammered out a few evasive phrases.   --Macaulay.
  -- E*va*sive*ly , adv. -- E*va*sive*ness, n.
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  evasively
       adv : with evasion; in an evasive manner; "her husband seemed to
             know many of the people who were named, but he replied
             evasively when asked who they were"