evasive - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

Exact Match:

evasive: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"; avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"

Synonyms:

Related Words:

elusive collapse: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline; difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"; be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"

malingering collapse: evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering"

shunning collapse

logic chopping collapse

secretive collapse

captious collapse: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

unethical collapse: not conforming to approved standards of social or professional behavior; "unethical business practices"

closemouthed collapse

unprincipled collapse: having little or no integrity; lacking principles or moral scruples; "freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny"- A.E.Stevenson

elusion collapse

runaround collapse

amoral collapse: lacking any sense of moral standards or principles; "a completely amoral person"

equivocation collapse: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; intentionally vague or ambiguous

unconscientious collapse: not conscientious; not guided by a sense of right and wrong

back talk collapse

not kosher collapse

rejoinder collapse: (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication; a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"

cagey collapse: characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"; showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

ill-gotten collapse

pussyfooting collapse

specious reasoning collapse

plausibility collapse: apparent validity

refraining collapse

intangible collapse: assets that are saleable though not material or physical; lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen; "that intangible thing--the soul"; hard to pin down or identify; "an intangible feeling of impending disaster"; incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch; "the intangible constituent of energy"- James Jeans; (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value; "intangible assets such as good will"

unscrupulous collapse: without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power"

uncommunicative collapse: not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions

reverberation collapse

nonintervention collapse: a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes

cryptic collapse: having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"; of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"

quibbling collapse

forestalling collapse

felonious collapse

fraudulent collapse

fishy collapse: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"; of or relating to or resembling fish; "the soup had a fishy smell"

dishonorable collapse: lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"; "a dishonorable discharge"; morally unacceptable; "the dishonorable conduct of trusted men"

underhanded collapse

sophism collapse: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

immoral collapse: deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong; morally unprincipled; "immoral behavior"

antiphon collapse: a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response

shady collapse: filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"

last

Wordage.info

the free tool for word discovery

Exact Match:

Synonyms:

Related Words: