| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective
also hole-in-corner ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷
1. : hidden from public view especially for reprehensible reasons : clandestine , underhand
carrying on a hole-and-corner intrigue — Times Literary Supplement
done behind my back in a hole-and-corner fashion — Dorothy Sayers
following a hole-in-corner, semiconspiratorial existence — New York Times
2. : belonging to the peripheral unimportant activities of life : insignificant
marriage degenerated into a hole-and-corner existence in which spirit and intellect played no part — Olive Arden
a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community — H.G.Wells