traceless
Americanadjective
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After it was presented to the chamber in 1929, it sank, virtually traceless — too big, maybe, too expensive, too ambitious, too contrarian to the plans of real estate salesmen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
A deteriorating loss of memory is, of course, no asset when one is trained in precision, ruthlessness and traceless escape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
This just before Pie herself, “a long girl, wobbly in heeled shoes, bowlegged, shifty — bored perhaps — but friendly, quick to laugh, on any errand making an impression,” disappears traceless from the village green.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2018
It rests on points of such traceless and refined delicacy, that though we feel them in the result, we cannot follow them in the details.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
Take off the ten, and I'd be with you on this traceless quest to the Spanish country.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet
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