Evasive \E*va"sive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]vasif. See Evade.]

Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. --Pope.

Stammered out a few evasive phrases. --Macaulay. -- E*va"sive*ly, adv. -- E*va"sive*ness, n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)