fugitive
noun
a person who is fleeing, as from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway.
fugitively
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a word derived from
fugitive.
Example Sentences
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There is something infantile about his features, something fugitively masked by his glittering eyes and sardonic smile.
From Time Magazine Archive
He heard his pistol explode once more, and again visioned a reeling firmament fugitively coruscant with strange constellations.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
She could not put into actual words the thought which flitted fugitively through her mind—it was too vague and indeterminate.
From The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler
She leaned toward him, smiling, her fugitively sweet, tantalizing smile; and, oblivious of the others, Seagreave caught her to him as if he would hold her against the world.
From The Black Pearl by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
"Some have been published, fugitively; the most of them remain in manuscript."
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable
