All 15 Uses

evade
in
Summer Pleasures, by Nora Roberts
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Though he was cannily evasive on personal details, she was gathering information.
Chpt 1.7 *

evasive = tending to avoid answering questions candidly (with direct answers)
He answered professional questions professionally and evaded any personal references.†
Chpt 1.2
He was very adept at evasions, she thought and turned away to wander the room.†
Chpt 1.3
There was suddenly no wit to evade, no strength to refuse.†
Chpt 1.3
With anyone else, Lee would have evaded the question or turned cold.†
Chpt 1.4
When you were dealing with a master of evasion, you had to tread carefully.†
Chpt 1.5
She'd question him, and he'd evade or answer as he chose.†
Chpt 1.7 *
Lee asked, knowing he would either answer in the most offhand way or evade completely.†
Chpt 1.7
You're evading again.†
Chpt 1.7
Could anyone make evasions with those soft doe eyes watching?†
Chpt 1.10
He could've evaded with anyone else.†
Chpt 1.12
Bryan didn't believe in evading or pretending.†
Chpt 2.1
Evasions weren't possible.†
Chpt 2.5
I don't know," she evaded.†
Chpt 2.9
"I have those things," she said evasively.†
Chpt 2.10

Definitions:

(1) (evade as in: evade the enemy)
physically avoid or get away from; or said of something that is hard to obtain
(2) (evade as in: evade the question)
to avoid or try to avoid either a responsibility or telling the whole truth
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)