evasively
- r with evasion; in an evasive manner
her husband seemed to know many of the people who were named, but he replied evasively when asked who they were
- He claimed (perhaps a tiny bit evasively) that he didn't have nightmares and that he couldn't recall anything weird about the night we fixed his arm.
- Do either of you agree that Chomsky is torn between his humanity, evident in his views on the Palestinians, and his loyalty to Israel, illustrated by evasively deflecting Israeli .
- On the stand, Tony was so evasively garrulous that his own lawyer asked the judge: "Please make that man answer the questions.