evasive

Preposition: on

• issue: The suggestion is that they might have been, once, but they're famously evasive on the issue.

Modifies a noun

• maneuver: This is the secondary evasive maneuver, which will flip your ship around automatically.
• maneuver: Consequently, taking heavy damage with no idea where the attack is coming from ensures evasive maneuvers become guess work which produces mixed results.
• action: The only evasive action I could take was to turn my head slightly, away from his studs.
• tactic: The pilot pursued the light which appeared to then take evasive tactics.
• answer: Recent questions from MPs have been met with evasive answers by the government.
• reply: We can also help you in the event that you receive a negative or evasive reply - don't be put off.

Modifying Another Word

• deliberately: Either the head coach was being deliberately evasive or perhaps Sheridan tripped over a stray cat on the way back to the team bus.
• very: You are being very evasive about your time in the inner circle.
• so: I cannot understand why the Deputy Prime Minister is being so evasive.
• equally: And when it comes to the Virgin Birth the Bishops ' language is equally evasive.
• somewhat: The answer, I thought, was somewhat evasive!
• too: But he is being far too evasive here, and he should not be surprised that suspicions about his intentions are growing.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: This was the first of many nights where sleep seemed evasive.
• prove: A masterpiece of natural camouflage, this bird would prove evasive to us all except Crystal!
• become: Answers to questions became very evasive, the Leader promised a swimming pool to those from the North.