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1. In an evasive manner.

   Asked bluntly by Julie Webb of the NME whether he was bent” in December 1974, Freddie [Mercury]answered evasively: “You're a crafty cow. […]”

   2019 January 22, Joe Sommerlad, “The reasons why Bohemian Rhapsody faced such a massive backlash”, in The Independent

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   "Take those things I sold yesterday. How much did you make on them?" "I couldn't say, dearie. I disremember what I paid for them," said Mrs Dibble evasively.

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 51