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evasiveness

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e·va·sive  (-vsv)
adj.
1. Inclined or intended to evade: took evasive action.
2. Intentionally vague or ambiguous; equivocal: an evasive statement.
e·vasive·ly adv.
e·vasive·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.evasiveness - intentionally vague or ambiguous
equivocation, prevarication
equivocalness, ambiguity - unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
untruthfulness - the quality of being untruthful
Translations
evasiveness [ɪˈveɪzɪvnɪs] N → esquivez f
voters are fed up with the party's evasiveness on economic matters → los votantes están hartos de la esquivez del partido en cuestiones económicas
evasiveness
n → ausweichendes Verhalten; (of answers) → ausweichende Antworten pl, → Herumgerede nt (pej)


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She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness, --not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
The fitful evasiveness of her manner when the subject was under discussion countenanced the idea.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
She replied, with a mixture of modest evasiveness and adorable simplicity, that she had sometimes seen gentlemen angling from a meadow-bank about a quarter of a mile below her flower-garden.
A Rogue's Life by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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