allusive
adjective
having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
allusively
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a word derived from
allusive.
Example Sentences
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The former president claimed a double standard about media outrage, referring allusively to the two … having an online history.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Then there’s the fact that Pepper’s eclectic, allusively titled body of work tells a complicated story, one that imprecisely adhered to the rigid tenets of Minimalism, with its anti-referent stance and self-justifying manifestoes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
Rather, what he found in Jackson Heights is, as the film meticulously, intellectually, allusively, yet ardently shows, a crucial aspect of American experience, a working-out on film of the American democratic ideal.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2015
She has pursued the central mystery tangentially and allusively in a clever, skilfully woven, teasing and compelling story "inspired by Lewis Carroll and Alice".
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2012
Cleomenes, 1692, is a tragedy, only remarkable as it occasioned an incident related in the Guardian, and allusively mentioned by Dryden in his preface.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
