1) Aiming to dodge 2) Ambiguous 3) Anything but straightforward 4) Avoiding the issue 5) Deliberately vague 6) Difficult to pin down 7) Dodgy 8) Doing some shuffling 9) Elusive or evanescent 10) Equivocal 11) Equivocating 12) Far from forthright 13) French word used in English 14) Hard to pin down 15) Intended to avoid 1) Ambiguous 2) Cagey 3) Devious 4) Eely 5) Equivocal 6) Protective 7) Shifty 8) Vague 9) Wary 
• (a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
E·va'sive adjective [ Confer French évasif . See Evade .] Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. « Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request.» Pope. « Stammered out a ...
tending to evade 
[adj] - avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire 2. [adj] - deliberately vague or ambiguous
adjective avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; `pilots are taught to take evasive action`
tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion: an evasive answer. · elusive or evanescent.
[SAT terms] deliberately vague or ambiguous