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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
evasive
eva·sive BrE [ɪˈveɪsɪv] NAmE [ɪˈveɪsɪv] adjective
not willing to give clear answers to a question
Syn: ↑cagey
•evasive answers/comments/replies
•Tessa was evasive about why she had not been at home that night.
•John, normally so honest, was now being evasive in the extreme.
Idiom: ↑take evasive action
Derived Words: ↑evasively ▪ ↑evasiveness
Word Origin:
[evasive evasively evasiveness] early 18th cent.: from Latin evas- ‘evaded’ (from the verb evadere) + ↑-ive.
Example Bank:
•He was very evasive with me.
•His reply was curiously evasive.
•She was a bit evasive on this point.
•They remained evasive over their plans.
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