Sentence examples for evasively from inspiring English sources

"evasively" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone or something that is avoiding questions or topics without being open or direct about it. For example: "When asked about the cause of the accident, the mechanic evasively mumbled something about a mechanical failure."

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evasively

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In an evasive manner

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At some point conflicting values will become an overwhelming theme, tested by events rather than a carefully mapped-out, but evasively thin five-page document published yesterday by the two parties.

The first time I talked to Elvis Costello for my story in this week's magazine — he was in British Columbia, looking after his kids — the phrase "evasively effusive," or maybe "effusively evasive," came to mind: he said so much and yet revealed so little.

By Nick Paumgarten October 29, 2010 The first time I talked to Elvis Costello for my story in this week's magazine — he was in British Columbia, looking after his kids — the phrase "evasively effusive," or maybe "effusively evasive," came to mind: he said so much and yet revealed so little.

THE joy of a Scarlett Johansson performance lies in watching her vacillate evasively in the face of grave alternatives, sensing all the while, with delicious dread, that she will ultimately make the wrong choice.

The CTBT's monitoring centre can detect and identify non-evasive nuclear testing of 1 kiloton or greater, but it cannot detect nuclear tests below this yield nor those above the yield done evasively.

On this subject the producer of the "The Patriot" says, somewhat evasively, that he "tried to keep all the events of the movie true to events that happened in the American revolution they may just not have happened in the same way or in the same place".But some British critics sense a plot.

Asked about his radical socialist convictions, he somewhat evasively talks of a rightward shift in past ANC policy documents.

"If you were married to a superhero you'd probably know it, one would hope," he says evasively.

"I've known him since the Under-21s," he says evasively.

Scaevola replied evasively that he would see that nothing illegal was done.

If meeting her was the high point of his youth, its nadir was the onset, at twenty-two, of a malady that Flaubert would always refer to evasively as "my nervous attacks".

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