surreptitiousness

surreptitious | American Dictionary

surreptitious
adjective
us/ˌsɜr·əpˈtɪʃ·əs/
done secretly, without anyone seeing or knowing:
a surreptitious glance

Examples of surreptitious

surreptitious
When the science becomes too intimate with its culture, there are dangers of surreptitious use of the presumed objective findings for ideological arguments.
He enjoyed wearing exotic non-regulation uniforms and had developed a unique surreptitious walk that lent an air of subterfuge to everything that he did.
It is difficult to estimate just how much relative surreptitious planning the various task conditions across studies allowed.
Such sentiments, however, were based on surreptitious motivations.
All of this adds further energy to the portrait of surreptitious scheming.
The surreptitious nature of scientific discovery will be described, as this work may eventually result in a therapy for smallpox.
In 1929 another law forbad people to move house in towns with over 25,000 inhabitants, but it proved impossible to prevent surreptitious changes of residence.
My action is of many types: a scraping, a buttering, a nocturnal pantry bumbling, a pursuit of a surreptitious snack, a self-indulgence, a midnight lark.
This is particularly important because youth with bipolar disorder frequently take surreptitious drug holidays and need to be counseled not to automatically resume the medication at the full dose.
Given that a primary goal of the volume is to train students to become ethnographers themselves, a note about the unacceptability of surreptitious recording would have been prudent.
Bacot moves from surreptitious recorder of family events to the acknowledged hospital historian.
This critique included a distinctly political component suggesting that such surreptitious foisting of meanings tended to serve the interests of institutions and agencies of social control.
A fourth principle is that early adverse events may affect neurodevelopment in obvious or surreptitious ways, the latter making it more difficult to prove cause and effect.
There has been a weakening of significant points by surreptitious means.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
This is a fundamental, if surreptitious, change, of which, once again, our voters are unaware.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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