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Surreptitious 1100 Words You Need
Surreptitious 1100 Words You Need
/ˌsʌr.əpˈtɪʃ.əs/ (adj)
done secretly, without anyone seeing or knowing, secret, secretive, clandestine, furtive, stealthy, sneaky, sly, underhanded, covert:
She seemed to be listening to what I was saying, but I couldn’t help noticing her surreptitious glances at the clock.
When she opened the volume and leaned over to examine the title-page, Tommy gave the photograph on the mantelpiece a surreptitious glance. There was a more or less grotesque resemblance in it to the almost portly, middle-aged original, who was dressed with a quiet absence of taste and answered in a general way Tommy’s description of a superior woman.
Antonyms
open, public
Parts of Speech
- Noun: surreptitiousness
- Adv: surreptitiously
French: subreptice
Farsi: مخفیانه
