NOUN
- (law) an answer by a defendant that fails to admit or deny the allegations set forth in the complaint
How To Use evasive answer In A Sentence
- My evasive answer didn't seem to satisfy him and he kept his grip on my arm.
- Again he received an evasive answer. Somewhere East of Life
- My questions brought only grudging, evasive answers. The Crossing-Place
- At Westminster, a series of written questions has produced singularly evasive answers.
- For some time before leaving the room in the tavern she had turned the coins restlessly over and over under her kerchief, and meanwhile, as if in a dream, made but evasive answers to the questions and demands of In the Blue Pike — Volume 03
- After a few months of evasive answers, they had all but given up.
- a slick evasive answer
- He was boring, which is fine, but more seriously, he didn't know what he was talking about and he gave evasive answers.
- Again he received an evasive answer. Somewhere East of Life
- Failure to answer, or providing evasive answers will count against the employer in a tribunal.
