elusive
In his paintings the focus is often far back in the picture, where a river or a gorge in the hills twists elusively out of sight.
Once more he had elusively slipped away.
She spoke elusively and vaguely, so it was hard to recall anything she'd said.
These items remain elusively rare in the shops.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Uncertainty
amorphous
be neither fish nor fowlidiom
blurringly
blurry
circumstantial
indeterminate
indeterminately
insecurely
insecurity
interrogatively
murky
shakiness
shallowly
slippery
spec
squishy
wavery
wifty
wishy-washy
you never knowidiom
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