The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elusive \E*lu"sive\, a. Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Elusive of the bridal day, she gives
Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives.
--Pope.
-- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an elusive manner
Usage examples of "elusively".
She had been less wary these last days, but it seemed to him that whenever he tried to step closer she moved elusively away from him.
The small tinners could be glimpsed flitting elusively here and there.
I was endeavouring to gather the loose ends of many thoughts and memories which flitted elusively through my tired and overwrought brain.
It was more as as if one or two whole instruments were micrometrically off key, playing perfectly consistently as units and yet infinitesi-mally out of tune, so that the entire performance was elusively discordant.
The scent of her skin was fresh and elusively, lightly fragrant, teasing him far more than if she had dabbed herself with perfume, no matter how expensive.
The march might be a girdle of lawless palatines, only elusively within reach of the King's justice, but the shadow of royal displeasure was at least a curb there.
The small tinners could be glimpsed flitting elusively here and there.