1.
If you describe someone as evasive, you mean that they deliberately avoid giving clear direct answers to questions.
He was evasive about the circumstances of his first meeting with Stanley Dean...
ADJ
• evasively
'I can't possibly comment on that,' Paul said evasively.
ADV: ADV with v
• evasiveness
She looked at him closely to see if his evasiveness was intentional.
N-UNCOUNT: oft poss N
2.
If you take evasive action, you deliberately move away from someone or something in order to avoid meeting them or being hit by them.
At least four high-flying warplanes had to take evasive action.
PHRASE: V inflects