Sentence examples for evasive in from inspiring English sources

Huma wasn't being evasive in any way.

"[He was] very evasive in his answers," Barrett told the inquest.

But many doctors can be woefully evasive in talking with their patients.

The effect was to make him look evasive in the face of Mr. Davis's attacks.

A shy dog tends to be uninterested in play, timid, cautious and evasive in unfamiliar situations.

But Paulino's stories and behavior have seemed inconsistent and occasionally evasive in the last few days.

But can I ask whether you thought that her responses were atypically evasive, even in a political world in which everybody tends to answer the question they want to answer, or frame a question in the most self-serving fashion?

He is widely considered to be one of the world's best boxers, at any weight, but he doesn't sell well: in the ring, he is evasive, vexing; in interviews, he is confident, taciturn.

Meanwhile, the Armenian National Committee of America, an advocacy group based in Washington, condemned the "euphemisms and evasive terminology" in Mr. Obama's statement and called it "yet another disgraceful capitulation to Turkey's threats".

Most have been fantastic, welcoming and helpful, they say; but those in recent years have been silent or evasive, even in person.

Martha Nussbaum wrote that his work "denounced the trivial and evasive way in which moral philosophy was being practised in England under the aegis of those two dominant theories".