elusory
21elusive — elusively, adv. elusiveness, n. /i looh siv/, adj. 1. eluding clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define: an elusive concept. 2. cleverly or skillfully evasive: a fish too elusive to catch. Also, elusory /i looh seuh ree …
22evasive — adjective a) Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself. b) Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action. Syn: elusive, slippery, shifty, cagey, equivocal …
23evasive — eva·sive /i vā siv, ziv/ adj: tending or intending to evade ◇ Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(a)(3), an evasive or incomplete answer to an interrogatory or to a question at a deposition is treated as a failure to answer and may be… …
24elusive — I adjective abstruse, apt to flee, baffling, difficult, difficult to catch, difficult to comprehend, difficult to understand, eluding clear perception, elusory, enigmatic, equivocal, escaping, evanescent, evasive, fleeting, fugitive, hard to… …
25oblique — I (evasive) adjective ambivalent, backhanded, circuitous, circumlocutory, cloaked, concealed, devious, disingenuous, elusive, elusory, equivocal, equivocating, furtive, indeterminate, indirect, inexact, lacking clarity, prevaricating, recondite,… …
26cagey — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, chary, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep laid, designing, diplomatic, distrustful, elusive, elusory, evasive, feline, foxy, guileful,… …
27elusive — Synonyms and related words: baffling, cagey, elusory, evanescent, evasive, fleeting, fugitive, impalpable, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable, insubstantial, intangible, malingering, mysterious, phantom, shifty, shirking, slippery,… …
28evasive — Synonyms and related words: ambiguous, amoral, bickering, cagey, captious, casuistic, caviling, choplogic, close, closemouthed, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, devious, discreet, dishonest,… …
29malingering — Synonyms and related words: cagey, clock watching, dodging, ducking, elusive, elusory, evasive, goofing off, shifty, shirking, skulking, slacking, slippery, soldiering, tax dodging, tax evasion, truancy, welshing …
30shifty — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adrift, afloat, alternating, ambidextrous, amoral, amorphous, arch, artful, astute, back door, backstairs, bent, cagey, calculating, canny, capricious, changeable, changeful,… …
