evasive
ih-VAY-sivadjMeaning avoiding a direct answer or a clear statement
Memory hook EVADE the question like a dodgeball. Granny Mae asks who broke the lamp, and Pip ducks the question like a dodgeball: “Nice weather, huh?” His answer is evasive.
When asked where the cake had gone, the twins gave evasive answers about the weather.
In context Usually Dev answered questions in detail, but about his report card he was strangely evasive, changing the subject every time his mother brought it up.
Similar vague, indirect, elusive, cagey
Opposite direct, frank, candid, forthright
From evade, from Latin evadere, “to go out, to escape”: e- (out) + vadere (to go).