Crossword clues for evasiveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
evasiveness \e*va"siv*eness\ ([-e]*v[=a]"s[i^]v*n[e^]s), n. Deliberate vagueness or ambiguity; failing to answer a question while trying to seem as though one is answering.
Syn: equivocation.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being evasive.
WordNet
n. intentionally vague or ambiguous [syn: equivocation, prevarication]
Usage examples of "evasiveness".
The librarian had decided not to push the man further, but had taken his evasiveness as a good sign.
Efforts to prove the truth of this had been inconclusive, but this inconclusiveness was in itself an affirmative answer: The computers were not capable of evasion, and it had been obvious that evasiveness was at work here.
But there is one motive which is shared by too many businessmen and which is the penalty for renouncing the intellect: an unconfessed fear of ideas under the professed conviction that ideas are futile, which leads to a nervously stubborn evasiveness, an anxious feeling or hope that wealth as such is power, that only material possessions are of practical importance.