All 41 Uses of

evade
in
An American Tragedy

...he found Kemerer as respectful and evasive as ever.
Chpt 2 *

evasive = avoiding telling the whole truth

...suddenly he caught her face between his two hands and kissed her, before really she could evade him.
Chpt 2 *

evade = get away from

"Oh, yes, I do, too," he said, evasively.†
Chpt 1

And seeing this, she put him off, at times evaded him, compelled him to content himself with little more than the crumbs of her company, while at the same time favoring him with descriptions or pictures of other activities and contacts which made him feel as though he could no longer endure to merely trail her in this fashion.†
Chpt 1

Later, and without having yielded anything more to Clyde than a few elusive and evasive endearments—intimate and languorous reclinings in his arms which promised much but always came to nothing—she made so bold as to indicate to him at different times and in different ways, purses, blouses, slippers, stockings, a hat, which she would like to buy if only she had the money.†
Chpt 1

At the same time he was made intensely curious by this evasive gesture.†
Chpt 1

Evasion and concealment formed no part of her real disposition (so different from his own).†
Chpt 1

She, for her part, felt recessive and thence evasive—uncertain, quite, what to think or say or tell.†
Chpt 1

She had evaded if not actually deceived him in regard to all this, for she knew Esta was here all the time.†
Chpt 1

"Well, I do when you're nice," she replied, slyly and evasively, seeking some way to avoid complications in connection with her original promises to him.†
Chpt 1

But having followed that at terrific speed for a short distance, he again—at Thirty-first—decided to turn—the houses in the distance confusing him and the suburban country to the north seeming to offer the best opportunity for evading his pursuers.†
Chpt 1

And at the same time, this Roberta Alden, once she was placed here in this fashion and becoming more familiar with local conditions, as well as the standing of Clyde, his charm, his evasive and yet sensible interest in her, was becoming troubled as to her state too.†
Chpt 2

There were evasive and yet strained and feverish eye-flashes between them.†
Chpt 2

Her pretty mouth, her lovely big eyes, her radiant and yet so often shy and evasive smile.†
Chpt 2

And at the same time, Clyde was wondering just how he was to do now—ride in with them and brazenly face the possibility of being seen by some one who might carry the news to Gilbert Griffiths or evade doing so on some pretext or other.†
Chpt 2

Was this to be another case of Hortense Briggs with all her wiles and evasions?†
Chpt 2

She could have waited until four if necessary, but something in his manner had precluded that—something distant and evasive.†
Chpt 2

"Why, sure, of course, honey, I'll be around," replied Clyde genially and even wholeheartedly, seeing that he had nothing else scheduled, that he knew of, for then, and would not so soon and boldly seek to evade her in this fashion.†
Chpt 2

His quick conclusion was to explain his absence this evening by a second invitation which had come later, also by asseverating that the Griffiths being potentially in charge of his material welfare, it was becoming more and more of a duty rather than an idle, evasive pleasure to desert her in this way at their command.†
Chpt 2

Her true intentions and affections so far were veiled behind a tantalizing evasiveness which made her all the more desirable.†
Chpt 2

At the same time, and as impractical and evasive as it may seem, there was the call of that diverting world of which Sondra was a part, evenings and Sundays, when, in spite of Roberta's wretched state and mood, he was called to go here and there, and did, because in so doing he was actually relieving his own mind of the dread specter of disaster that was almost constantly before it.†
Chpt 2

For since he had been drawing closer and closer to Sondra, his hopes had heightened so intensely that, hearkening to this demand on the part of Roberta now, his brow wrinkled and his manner changed from one of comparatively affable, if nervous, consideration to that of mingled fear, opposition as well as determination to evade drastic consequence.†
Chpt 2

He paused to see what effect this explanation would have, but noting the somewhat dubious expression which of late characterized Roberta's face whenever he began excusing himself, he added hopefully and evasively, seeking by any trick that he could to delay this sudden issue: "Besides, I'm not so sure that I can't find a doctor yet, either.†
Chpt 2

But to further support his evasive suggestion that she now return to her home for a short period, he added that she would want to fix herself up a little, wouldn't she?†
Chpt 2

Without a compass or guide, as he was told, one might wander to one's death even—so evasive were directions to those who did not know.†
Chpt 2

It was true that from moment to moment—arguing with himself as he constantly was—sweating mental sweats and fleeing from moral and social terrors in connection with it all, he was thinking from time to time that he might go to Big Bittern in order to quiet her in connection with these present importunities and threats and hence (once more evasion—tergiversation with himself) give himself more time in which to conclude what his true course must be.†
Chpt 2

And, getting her once more, began one of those long and evasive and, in this instance, ingratiating explanations which eventually, after he had insisted that he had actually been sick—confined to his room with a fever and hence not able to get to a telephone—and because, as he now said, he had finally decided that it would be best if he were to make some explanation to his uncle, so that he might return some time in the future, if necessary—he, by using the most pleading, if not actually affectionate, tones and asking her to consider what a state he had been in, too, was able not only to make her believe that there was some excuse for his delay and silence, but also to introduce the plan tha†
Chpt 2

But this waiting—evasion—and so like Clyde, his vacillating, indefinite, uncertain mood, always.†
Chpt 2

For now—now—in spite of himself, the long evaded and yet commanding moment.†
Chpt 2

"Why, no sir, of course I don't admit it," replied Clyde, his thin and now white lips drawn tight over his even teeth, his eyes full of a deep, tremulous yet evasive terror.†
Chpt 3

Questions which Clyde could do no more than ignore, or if not, answer as equivocally or evasively or indifferently as possible.†
Chpt 3

Yet, with the night having once more fallen, or the day dragging on with only the lean and bearded Kraut or the sly and evasive Sissel, or both, hanging about, or coming to the door to say, "Howdy!" or to discuss something that had occurred in town, or to play chess, or checkers, Clyde growing more and more moody and deciding, maybe, that there was no real hope for him after all.†
Chpt 3

She was more secretive and evasive and given to furnishing all sorts of false excuses for new and strange adventures—as, for instance, going out nights and staying late, and claiming to be places over Saturday and Sunday where she wasn't—until finally, because of criticism which she, Grace Marr, had ventured to make, she had suddenly left, without giving any address.†
Chpt 3

And next the boat captain, the farm girl, the Cranston chauffeur, the arrival of Clyde at the Cranstons', and at last (every step accounted for and sworn to) his arrival at Bear Lake, the pursuit and his capture—to say nothing of the various phases of his arrest—what he said—this being most damaging indeed, since it painted Clyde as false, evasive, and terrified.†
Chpt 3

And so with the riding in separate cars, registering as Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Golden, and so on indefinitely throughout the entire list of shifty concealments and evasions.†
Chpt 3

"Well, maybe as she saw it it couldn't," evaded Clyde.†
Chpt 3

"Well, it looks like it," replied Clyde, evasively after examining the item which had inclined him toward Grass Lake in the first place.†
Chpt 3

In fact even now to himself there was much that was evasive and even insoluble about it.†
Chpt 3

So evasive!†
Chpt 3

Oh, these evasive and tangled and torturesome thoughts!†
Chpt 3

Mrs. Griffiths, violently shaken and deeply depressed by the peculiar silence and evasion of McMillan at the crucial moment of this interview when the Governor had asked such an all important and direct question as to the guilt of her son, was still unable to say a word more.†
Chpt 3

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(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

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