Usage examples (36)

• allusive speech is characterized by allusions
• Jarmusch is the director who puts the loose in "allusive" and the lipstick in "elliptical"; I fully recognize his movies aren't to everybody's taste.
• DreamWorks, in particular, has made the kind of allusive, parodic cultural self-consciousness that used to be called postmodernism safe for the whole family.
• 'prays in aid of similes,' -- that this is a specimen of what he calls elsewhere 'allusive' writing.