Of action, conduct, speech: Evasive, shifty.

Tending to elude (a danger, argument, law, etc.); of the nature of an evasion or subterfuge.

Of an argument: Evasive, of the nature of a subterfuge. Obsolete.

Of actions or utterances: Tending to evasion; containing or characterized by evasion. Const. of. Esp. in (to take) evasive action: of a pilot, (to…