deflective
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He will need to draw upon all his reserves of deflective parliamentary wit.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
His sadness triggered his deflective smile, and he’d detach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
Smith also recommends a deflective approach for invading jackets, hair or feet.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
And he offered his deflective auto-response to several inquiries whose answers seemed easily retrieved.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
Air, finally, has so small an index of refraction and so small a deflective influence upon light, that the refractive effect is commonly imperceptible altogether.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
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