Meaning & use
deflective
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Tending to turn something aside or cause it to deviate from its intended course; evasive.
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The shield's deflective surface caused the arrows to glance off harmlessly.
His deflective answers cleverly avoided the reporter's real question.
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Used both literally in physics and engineering and figuratively to describe evasive communication.
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