| 单词 | evasively |
| 释义 | evasively (once / 5855 pages) adv To do something evasively is to do it in a round about, indirect, or slightly sneaky way. When a politician responds to a question evasively, she avoids a straightforward, honest answer. When you speak evasively, you come very close to lying — you're not being forthright, but are instead skirting around what's true. A criminal in court might answer a lawyer's questions evasively, and someone who's using a fake name might behave evasively when asked about his history. If you move evasively, you avoid being caught, and the Latin root, evadere, means "to get away or escape." WORD FAMILYevasive: evasively, evasiveness+/evade: evaded, evades, evading, evasion, evasive/evasion: evasions USAGE EXAMPLES“Something I heard back in Fallows,” I said evasively. Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007) “Italy is easy for a footballer. But Paris is great,” he says evasively. The Guardian(Jun 07, 2016) “Uh, no,” Rose says evasively, walking away from us and toward them. Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind(2010) adv 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 |
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