Evasive in a sentence as an adjective

The choice is not between "be polite and evasive" and "be honest and abusive".

While this is technically correct[1]... they're still being evasive.

"No, I'm just talking out of my ***" would have been a sufficient answer, instead of your evasive wordplay.

So it must be true that at least some of the time you're being deliberately evasive for incorrect reasons.

If you lie to state or local policemen, they can use that against you as evidence that you were trying to be evasive.

Yes, Russell definitely did that and was evasive about it afterward.

He could have set up an auto-reply by letting his publisher handle his mail, but found that "evasive and unsatisfying".

It'd be like saying "I used to work for a President who made Executive Order X", and then being evasive when someone asks who the President was.

Being evasive may also require additional court appearances and court orders.

Microsoft executives have proved, time and time again, to be inaccurate, misleading, evasive, and transparently false.

Radically transparent interfaces are designed in a way that leads to a kind of peer pressure for disclosure: everyone else is sharing information about A, B and C, so why are you being so evasive?

But our pilot never lost contact with the ground and we landed safely -- we certainly didn't disappear for over a week, fly far beyond our emergency landing opportunity, or perform bizarre evasive maneuvers.

The only thing that struck me as "really weird" about this is that the author called a Denver Post reporter to get live legal information while he was in the car, and that the author wrote this sentence: "Did I really want to take a ride from an individual who clearly lied to me, then was evasive when I asked one basic question?

Maybe if you keep reframing your questions you'll manage to weave your way past my original evasive answer of "we decided not to do it that way" to the truth of "we grind up the bones of the victims of our free crypto challenges into a fine meal we use to fertilize the fungus patches we rely on for sustenance down in the pentest mines".

Instead,"We are saddened by the accusations that we would ever do such a thing, or sell weaponized exploits.\nIf anyone ever attempted to include malware in a jailbreak, we are confident that the many\nsecurity experts combing through jailbreak software would find it."The explanations about Saurik and piracy in their Chinese pals' app store comes off as similarly evasive.

Evasive definitions

adjective

deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"

adjective

avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"