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Evasive
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example Sentences
- But he was also long-winded and at times evasive.
- The truth is sly, evasive; but the novelist closes in upon it with poetic precision to create a small, enigmatic work of art.
- His art was certainly not evasive.
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Word Origin & History
evasive
1734, in reference to actions, utterances; from Fr. évasif, from L. evas-, pp. stem of evadere (see evasion). Related: Evasively; evasiveness
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