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Elusive   /ɪlˈusɪv/   Listen
adjective
Elusive  adj.  Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. "Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Elusive" Quotes from Famous Books



... club. One night, as Helen was chatting of a young an from Boston who had teased her by following her around until every one was calling him "Helen's little lamb," Mary gradually became aware of an elusive scent in ...
— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston

... long. He was squatting in the moss, a bone in his mouth, sucking at the shreds of life that still dyed it faintly pink. The sweet meaty taste, thin and elusive almost as a memory, maddened him. He closed his jaws on the bones and crunched. Sometimes it was the bone that broke, sometimes his teeth. Then he crushed the bones between rocks, pounded them to a pulp, and swallowed ...
— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

... Automation, University of California, opened his talk with the general observation that networked information constituted a difficult and elusive topic because it is something just starting to develop and not yet fully understood. LYNCH contended that creating genuinely networked information was different from using networks as an access or dissemination vehicle and was more sophisticated and more subtle. He invited ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... white bed, in a low ceilinged room, white painted. There were other beds, vacant. A uniformed male nurse puttered around. There was an elusive green tinge to the light that poured in through ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... last day! That was ominous. It sounded like monomania. So ghostly and elusive! I began to suspect my American ally of being a ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen


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