I'd call that a safe answer, and it's true enough.

She groped frantically for a safe answer to that question.

We'll stay right here and find a safe answer if it takes ten years.

There was no safe answer to that; Bowman gave up the argument.

Cirocco tried to think of a safe answer, but he apparently didn't want one.

"He gives safe answers designed to please everyone in the audience and reveal very little."

It was a common enough business tactic, a safe answer before turning the questions back on the customer, getting him to talk about himself.

It was a safe answer; the president, after all, was a cautious man.

But if it's the only safe answer for the world, then that's the way it is.

In baseball, that is always the safe answer because the team with the best pitching usually prevails.