evasive
If I asked her about the notes she kept she answered evasively.
She found that her questions were answered evasively by those she contacted.
When a ship approaches, the blue whales slowly sink, rather than dive or swim evasively.
An officer tried to stop a car that was being driven evasively.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
go off on a tangentidiom
hedging
implicit
mealy-mouthed
obscure
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
unexpressed
unvoiced
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Moving in order to avoid contact