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elusively

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e·lu·sive  (-lsv, -zv)
adj.
1. Tending to elude capture, perception, comprehension, or memory: "an invisible cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist [himself]" (David Kline).
2. Difficult to define or describe: "Failures are more finely etched in our minds than triumphs, and success is an elusive, if not mythic, goal in our demanding society" (Hugh Drummond).

[From Latin lsus, past participle of ldere, to elude; see elude.]

e·lusive·ly adv.
e·lusive·ness n.
Translations
elusively [ɪˈluːsɪvlɪ] ADV to behave elusivelycomportarse de manera esquiva
... he said elusively... dijo, esquivo, ... dijo, mostrándose esquivo
elusively
adv (+adj) → auf undefinierbare Art; (+vb) → undefinierbar; answerausweichend


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He was a man not merely religious, but devout; a firm believer--not as the phrase is now elusively construed by theological thimble-riggers in the Church and out of it, but in the old and ardent sense of the Evangelical school: one who could
Then came a little valley overgrown with the pale purple bloom of thistles and elusively haunted with their perfume.
Yet did it quiver under the finger-tip caress in rhythmic vibrations that became whisperings and rustlings and mutterings of sound--but of sound so different; so elusively thin that it was shimmeringly sibilant; so mellow that it was maddening sweet, piping like an elfin horn, which last was just what Bassett decided would be like a peal from some bell of the gods reaching earthward from across space.
 
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