Crossword-Solution: EVASIVE 7 letters, 88 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Evasive a. Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive;
shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

We have 88 clues for the answer “EVASIVE”

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Like one refusing to take a stand 1 answer
Aiming to dodge 1 answer
Answering with a question, maybe 1 answer
Answering with a question, perhaps 1 answer
Anything but straightforward 1 answer
Avoiding direct reply. 1 answer
Deliberately vague 1 answer
Difficult to pin down 1 answer
Doing some shuffling 1 answer
Far from forthright 1 answer
Intended to avoid 1 answer
Intentionally indirect 1 answer
Intentionally noncommittal 1 answer
Like a waffler 1 answer
Like many a politician's answers 1 answer
Not direct 1 answer
Ambiguous, as avoidance tactics 1 answer
Very hard to capture 1 answer
TENDING to evasion 1 answer
Refusing to be pinned down. 1 answer
Refusing to answer directly 1 answer
Not to the point, say 1 answer
Not frank 1 answer
Like some action 1 answer
Like users of weasel words 1 answer
Like tricky maneuvers 1 answer
Like someone who answers a question with a question 1 answer
Like some press conference answers 1 answer
Like some military maneuvers 1 answer
Slippery as an eel. 2 answers
Less than frank 2 answers
Hard to follow 2 answers
Weaselly 2 answers
Sidestepping 3 answers
Hard to nail down 3 answers
Hardly forthcoming 3 answers
Far from forthcoming 4 answers
Noncommittal 4 answers
Not forthcoming 4 answers
Sliding ___ 7 answers
Not straightforward. 7 answers
Maneuvers 7 answers
Posed 7 answers
Not open 7 answers
HARD to pin down 9 answers
AN ACTION INTENDED TO CONCEAL OR CONFUSE OR OBSCURE 10 answers
ACTION INTENDED TO CONFUSE OR OBSCURE 10 answers
DIRECT TOWARD AN INTENDED GOAL 10 answers
eely 10 answers
BE STRAIGHTFORWARD 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EVASIVE (5)

Martin Templer crossed the Seine and performed evasive maneuvers to make sure he was not being followed.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
His vanity found a retrospective enjoyment in the sentiment his heart had rejected, and this factitious emotion drove him once or twice to Hillbridge, whence, after scenes of evasive tenderness, he returned dissatisfied with himself and her.
The Touchstone Edith Wharton 1995
The uncared-for clothes, the aggressive, grizzled beard, and the furtive, evasive eye of the new-comer bespoke the professional cadger, the man who would undergo hours of humiliating tale-spinning and rebuff rather than adventure on half a day’s decent work.
Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki 2011
For two or three days the mother of the young convert was prevented from communicating with her child by various evasive contrivances, but not, it would seem, by a flat refusal.
Eothen A. W. Kinglake 2008
Anna felt that he was looking at her, and sat still, disdaining to seek refuge in any evasive word or movement.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with EVASIVE (3)

Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.…
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to be a universal brotherhood under Jesus Christ. Christian love is the white man's love for himself and for his race.
Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meetingby a professor of electrical engineering in the graduate school I of MIT. He said that after reading the book he realized that his graduate students were using on him, and had used for the ten years and more he had been teaching there, all the evasive strategies I described in the book — mumble, guess-and-look, take a wild guess and see what happens, get the teacher to answer his own questions, etc. But …
John Holt How Children Fail
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 42 times in crossword archives (1955–2024).