Evasive

[Fr. évas if. ] That evades; using evasion or artifice to avoid; elusive; shuffling; equivocating; containing evasion; artfully contrived to elude a question, charge, or argument. Eva's ively, adv . By evasion or subterfuge; elusively; in a manner to avoid a direct reply or a charge. Eva's ivene , n. Quality or state of being evasive. Eve, n. [Heb. chav a , life, from obsolete chai a, to live.) The consort of Adam, and the mother of the human race; so called by Adam because she was the mother of all living.