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    [Adjective]  | "eva*sive" | \ i-ˈvā-siv \


    1: tending or intended to evade : equivocal


    Origin: 1637 ;

    [Adjective]  | "evasive" 


    1: hard to find, capture, or isolate;


      * e.g., " ... believers in Bigfoot have never quite explained how such a large creature can be so evasive "



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     [ "evasion" ]

    1: Avoiding something, especially in an argument.

      * e.g.,  ... I'm getting really tired of your constant evasion of my questions. 


     [ "evasion" ]

    2: An accusation used in debates by the childish whenever a person doesn't respond in the exact way desired.

     [ "evasive" ]

    1: Avoiding an object or a subject. Skirting around an issue.

      * e.g.,  ... Stop being so evasive and tell me if you have plans for New Years Eve. 

     [ "Evasic" ]

    1: Any person who enjoys good literature.

      * e.g.,  ... First it was Cirque de Freak, now it's Harry Potter, he is such an evasic. 

     [ "Evasion" ]

    1: If you get banned from a game, and you go on to another account while your banned. Just so you can play more.

      * e.g.,  ... I got banned today. So your evading/Evasion? Yeah. 

     [ "evasion" ]

    1: No answer is a good answer!

      * e.g.,  ... Avoidance of ones words, to prevent the trapping of lies. 

     [ "evasion" ]

    1: Child like temper within a person of a young adult age.

      * e.g.,  ... Your acting like evasion :/ 


     [ "evasion" ]

    2: Often known to never let anything go and remain annoyed and upset for a long time over intangable objects

     [ "evasive maneuver" ]

    1: Action taken by a person who spys another person approaching whom he would like to avoid. Evasive maneuvers include: Ducking down an aisle or into a cubicle to avoid the person. Turning around mid-stride and walking away from the person before he spys you. Making up an elaborate (yet plausible) excuse to get away from the person, i. e. "I really want to chat, but I am late picking up my kids from daycare. It was good seeing you!" Pretending to be engaged in some important act (i.e. a telephone call) so the person is forced to leave your presence.

      * e.g.,  ... Upon seeing the office gossip approach, the clerk begins the evasive maneuver of grabbing a stack of folders and heading toward the file room. 

     [ "evasive mumbling" ]

    1: Mumbling the answer to a question in hopes that the questioner won't hear or understand an answer that may get you in trouble.

      * e.g.,  ... When mom asks about that broken plate, you better answer with some evasive mumbling. 

     [ "Tax evasion" ]

    1: An easy way to keep all of the money you have earned

      * e.g.,  ... Jake~ I wonder what things I could do to keep the money I have earned this month. Paul~ Have you tried doing tax evasion? Jake~ omg Paul, you're a genious. 

     [ "ban evasion" ]

    1: The act of bypassing your ban from a site, which usually leads to you getting banned from that site again because the janitors are too dumb to realize that dynamic IPs are a thing.

      * e.g.,  ... XxFuckYourMomXx was banned for ban evasion. 

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