"evasive for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone's behavior or actions as being intentionally vague or avoiding giving a direct answer. Example: The politician's responses during the press conference were evasive for the questions regarding his involvement in the scandal.
This strikes me as an odd, evasive strategy for uncovering much about your father; it's certainly a poor strategy for composing a consistently interesting memoir.
It is a slightly evasive word for racial mix.
Pushed to define how he intended the funds to be used, Moulton is a little evasive — possibly for legal reasons.
Perhaps it will find a second life on streaming services, but Intruders is just the latest in a conga line of cackhandedly cryptic TV shows that mistake heightened style and evasive storytelling for genuinely intriguing drama.
'The Fog of War' In Errol Morris's documentary portrait of Robert S. McNamara, this 85-year-old former secretary of defense delivers an evasive apologia for his mistakes in prosecuting the Vietnam War.
The FAA, which has given various evasive explanations for the ban, is under the jurisdiction of the committee and so has reason to take this seriously.There is no evidence that electronic devices such as phones and iPads cause a problem on aeroplanes.
It is an excellent, though evasive, parameter for monitoring the course of liver disease and treatment efficiency.
Indeed, how else to explain why Honda has studied the maddeningly evasive cockroach (for anticollision technology), decoded the rice genome (to increase crop yields and create more-productive crops for biofuels) and developed a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).
