" In my personal opinion, the President is perfectly right here; but from the point of view which it was the mission of the delegates of the Republican Union to take, is not this third declaration as evasive as the preceding?

It might seem evasive in us to suggest to our English critics that they should refresh their memories about the causes and the justification of our Revolution by reading the pages of their own Burke.

She had been deliberately evasive of him since his quarrel with Paula.

There is something subtle and evasive about yousomething I seem to be close to always, yet never can see or grasp.