evasive
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Zang, in her report, called those denials “not credible,” describing his testimony as “evasive and self contradictory.”
From Los Angeles Times
In the past, the author explains, he tended to ignore birds because most “were too small, too evasive, too difficult to know, requiring too much patience and too much submission to their tricky little habits.”
In his review, Joseph Horowitz called the book “as honest and unassuming as Stokowski was evasive and flamboyant.”
Complicating his situation further is his uncertain relationship with the spy-catcher—or “termite-hunter”—Faith, who is warm and friendly one minute, elusive and evasive the next.
“At that speed, you really only have a chance to spot such a small object at the very last moment, and then it is simply too late to take evasive action,” he said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
