EVASIVE ANSWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evasive answer mean? 

• EVASIVE ANSWER (noun)
  The noun EVASIVE ANSWER has 1 sense:

1. (law) an answer by a defendant that fails to admit or deny the allegations set forth in the complaint

  Familiarity information: EVASIVE ANSWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVASIVE ANSWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) an answer by a defendant that fails to admit or deny the allegations set forth in the complaint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("evasive answer" is a kind of...):

answer (the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of 'guilty' or 'not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

 Context examples 

An evasive answer and a request for more of his work was all he received.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)