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evasive 音标拼音: [ɪv'esɪv] [ɪv'ezɪv] [iv'esɪv] [iv'ezɪv] a. 逃避的,回避的,托辞的 逃避的,回避的,托辞的 evasive adj 1: deliberately vague or ambiguous; " his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; " an evasive statement" 2: avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; " pilots are taught to take evasive action" evasive \ e* va" sive\ ([- e]* v[= a]" s[ i^] v), a. [ Cf. F. [' e] vasif. See { Evade}.] Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. [ 1913 Webster] Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] Stammered out a few evasive phrases. -- Macaulay. -- { E* va" sive* ly}, adv. -- { E* va" sive* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 90 Moby Thesaurus words for " evasive": ambiguous, amoral, bickering, cagey, captious, casuistic, caviling, choplogic, close, closemouthed, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, devious, discreet, dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, doubtful, dubious, elusive, elusory, equivocal, equivocating, equivocatory, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, hairsplitting, hedging, ill- got, ill- gotten, immoral, indirect, insidious, intangible, logic- chopping, malingering, misleading, nit- picking, not kosher, oblique, paltering, petty, picayune, prevaricating, pussyfooting, questionable, quibbling, rotten, secret, secretive, shady, shameless, shifty, shirking, shuffling, sinister, sliding, slippery, sly, sophistical, suspicious, tergiversant, tergiversating, trichoschistic, tricky, trifling, trivial, unclear, uncommunicative, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vague, weasel- worded, without remorse, without shame
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