illusive
adjective
illusively
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a word derived from
illusive.
Example Sentences
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The fear that lurked illusively in the daughter was in the parent magnified to an appalling panic, an instinctive, acute agony that had crushed everything but a thin, tormented spark of life.
From Wild Oranges by Joseph Hergesheimer
The forest, a tangle of shrubs and strange creepers, was the scene of the idyl; she, a sprite of the greenwood, danced illusively through the maze.
From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham
Other sitars came in illusively, till they snared the current of human blood in a golden mesh and measured its flow to the time of mounting emotion.
From Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort
In the pleasant, well-appointed drawing-room of the Svetilovitches, in the lifeless light of three electric globes with lustrous bronze fittings, the green-blue upholsterings of the Empire furniture seemed illusively beautiful.
From The Created Legend by John Cournos
The little shaded lamp threw a circle of light round the bed, but left the rest of the room dim, and the dusky corners seemed full of odd new shadows that came and went illusively.
From The Sheik by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
