Sentence examples similar to evasive means from inspiring English sources

It was an evasive move, meant to prevent anyone at the Chelsea Garden Center from pulling a pop quiz on her.

The gladiator's lack of armour and his reliance on evasive tactics meant that many considered the retiarius the lowliest (and most effeminate) of an already stigmatised (i.e. gladiators) class.

Hertz even provides a driver trained in "evasive driving techniques," whatever that means.

Yet this doesn't mean it's evasive or sentimental.

Even the party that proposed the referendum, the Swiss People's party (SVP), can be evasive when asked what they mean by "mass immigration".

Asked, ever so delicately, what he thought about Murray's habit of taking out his frustrations on his team during a match – with Judy centre stage – he says: "I don't mean to be evasive.

He vomits out a flurry of observations and theories, some of which are meant to be evasive and others to explain.

Asked if a different exit could mean IPO, Lerer was evasive.

I asked what it meant and I received an evasive answer.

In her finely detailed recollections, Greene comes across as difficult, evasive, enigmatic, contradictory and even on occasion mean, short-tempered and irrational.

Doublespeak by politicians, athletes or even celebrities in the news means using language that is deceptive, evasive, and at best, confusing.