Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Evasive \E*va"sive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]vasif. See {Evade}.]
   Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling;
   avoiding by artifice.

         Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest,
         Answered evasive of the sly request.     --Pope.

         Stammered out a few evasive phrases.     --Macaulay.
   -- {E*va"sive*ly}, adv. -- {E*va"sive*ness}, n.

Source : WordNet®

evasive
     adj 1: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief,
            constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
     2: avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially
        enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
     3: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each
        more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline [syn: {elusive}]