elusively


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e·lu·sive

(ĭ-lo͞o′sĭv, -zĭv)
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 ēlūsus, past participle of ēlūdere, to elude; see elude.]
e·lu′sive·ly adv.
e·lu′sive·ness n.
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Translations

elusively

[ɪˈluːsɪvlɪ] ADV to behave elusively → comportarse de manera esquiva
... he said elusively → ... dijo, esquivo, ... dijo, mostrándose esquivo
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elusively

adv (+adj) → auf undefinierbare Art ; (+vb) → undefinierbar ; answer → ausweichend
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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
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Then came a little valley overgrown with the pale purple bloom of thistles and elusively haunted with their perfume.
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I was endeavouring to gather the loose ends of many thoughts and memories which flitted elusively through my tired and overwrought brain.
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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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For these two men had SEEN her, while to me she was only being "presented," elusively, in vanishing words, in the shifting tones of an unfamiliar voice.
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Zog fails pretty much across the board and Madame Dragon's gold stars remain elusively out of reach.
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To India's literary-minded he also featured in 2018's Latitudes of Longing, Shubhangi Swarup's novel in which the Earth's geological nature is also a character: in it, an Indian scientist working in the Himalayan glaciers hallucinates (or is it hallucination?) about a yellow-eyed Yeti wandering about elusively on the ice outside.
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Did that oneness with the Father God seem elusively difficult to re-capture?
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And to go even further beyond, to the elusively hidden Double O arch, requires nerves of steel as you shimmy over a monumentally steep stone 'fin'.
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And to go even farther beyond, to the elusively hidden Double O arch, requires nerves of steel as you shimmy over a monumentally steep stone "fin".
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Perhaps this has to do with its position as a frontier--at the crossroads of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia--where it is elusively difficult to chart exactly what is happening.
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Thus, we have elusively experience ourselves as independent, separated from the living network.
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