Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being evasive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Deliberate vagueness or ambiguity; failing to answer a question while trying to seem as though one is answering.
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- noun The quality of being
evasive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun intentionally vague or ambiguous
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Examples
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McCain isn't and never was George W. Bush, and Obama with all his equivocation and evasiveness is no John McCain.
McCain admits mistake in using Petraeus picture for fundraising 2008
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In case of a normal life plan, one of causes of the evasiveness is the medical exam that people need to clear before qualifying for any life insurance.
EzineArticles 2010
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What he boasts of in response to Mangen is precisely the "evasiveness" I was talking about.
'The Mystery of Consciousness': An Exchange Dennett, Daniel C. 1995
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This sceptical dogma of "evasiveness" is generally found in alliance with some vague modern "religion" whose chief object is to strip the world of the dignity of its real tragedy and endow it with the indignity of some pretended assurance.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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And no vague talk about the "evasiveness" and "over-brimmingness" of life can alter one jot or tittle of its eternal outlines.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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Despite Elena Kagan's impressive "evasiveness," observers have noted a loose and shifting commitment to the principle of free speech.
Latest Articles 2010
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"evasiveness" of life are persons in whose own flesh the wedge-like granite of fate has lodged itself with crushing finality.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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I get more than a little tired of Hunter’s definition of "evasiveness" or "prevarication".
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Incidentally, Lebanon, in turn, is in the sphere of embarrassment, with the policy of evasiveness that it adopts with regard to the Syrian issue at the Security Council.
Raghida Dergham: Palestine at the United Nations: The Long Path of Wisdom Raghida Dergham 2011
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Incidentally, Lebanon, in turn, is in the sphere of embarrassment, with the policy of evasiveness that it adopts with regard to the Syrian issue at the Security Council.
Raghida Dergham: Palestine at the United Nations: The Long Path of Wisdom Raghida Dergham 2011
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