Crafty avoidance of direct answers (11)

I believe the answer is:

evasiveness

(Other definitions for evasiveness that I've seen before include "Slippery characteristic" , "Shifty characteristic" , "Tendency to avoid commitment" , "avoiding the issue" , "Inability to give a straight answer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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