evasive
A person could tell a truth with sufficient evasiveness to avoid revealing what he wants to keep hidden.
His evasiveness feels at odds with the bold songs he's written.
Offensive precision and defensive evasiveness are strong indicators of a fighter's prowess in this sport.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
go off on a tangentidiom
hedging
implicit
mealy-mouthed
obscure
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
unexpressed
unvoiced
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Moving in order to avoid contact