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Example sentences for: evasive

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The prolonged exchange made Bush look evasive, and he was criticized afterward for dodging the question.
Russian citizens, long accustomed to evasive and deceptive reports on their leaders' health, took the news of Yeltsin's illness with typical stoicism.
Closely related to gobbledygook, but more malicious, is doublespeak . In 1973, the National Council of Teachers of English established a Committee on Public Doublespeak to help identify and stamp out evasive and obfuscating terminology slithering out of public sources, such as “uncontrolled contact with the ground” for “airplane crash” and “inoperative statement” for “lie.”
Le Soir of Belgium supported the dramatic gesture of unity since "it is too late for half-measures or for soft, evasive answers" and claimed the resignations were needed because the commission "suffers from a democracy deficit and therefore a lack of legitimacy.
By the Clinton years, the character question was reduced to a checklist of intrusive inquiries about past infidelity, military service, and drug use--and, if evasive or dishonest answers were given, also about honesty and integrity.