SURREPTITIOUS


Meaning of SURREPTITIOUS in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Fortunately, his surreptitious action also turned out to be illegal.

Solitary, masochistic, surreptitious vice, that's all he understands.

The back avoids eye contact and confrontation, but it may invite the surreptitious gaze.

The result was that we all kept making surreptitious trips to the staff room to refill our plastic beakers.

Then a little light came through the uncovered spyhole, a flickering, surreptitious light.

Women in nightdresses peeping out of roadside houses lent a surreptitious air to the first few miles.

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