surreptitious
He watched surreptitiously from the hallway, and what he saw and heard made him suspicious.
If you were surreptitiously checking football scores on your cell phone during Thanksgiving dinner, you're just the sort of person the company is looking for.
An audio CD of the surreptitiously recorded conversation arrived at the newspaper in a brown envelope with no return address.
Sometimes spyware is installed surreptitiously when a person visits a website.
They went undercover to surreptitiously film racers at the illegal events, recording faces and license plates.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Secrecy and privacy
anonymity
anonymization
anonymize
anonymous
anonymously
cryptography
data protection
dead men tell no talesidiom
dissimulate
dissimulation
official secret
on the quietidiom
privacy
privacy settings
private
under wrapsidiom
undisclosed
unrevealed
unsourced
unstated

Examples of surreptitiously

surreptitiously
Secondly, a man surreptitiously removes a £5 note from one's jacket pocket as one is walking down the street.
Structural effects on agency typically do not occur surreptitiously.
In this way we would surreptitiously be introducing the idea that the model is a perfect image of the phenomenon being examined.
Surreptitiously, a child can act secretly as the boss to another child, who he or she puts in the role of follower.
Rather than give up caustic soda and synthetic dye, dyers ignored the bans and continued to use both items surreptitiously.
He presented himself as a competent person who knew the answers better than other students, especially younger ones, with whom he was often surreptitiously cruel.
The toy pizza was surreptitiously placed next to the entering child before the session began.
Sometimes the invitation to intervene is public and unashamed, at other times it is made surreptitiously.
If the answer to this question is positive, it seems to me that the essence of the notion of phase is surreptitiously reintroduced.
Such criticism is of course dissolved once we see that it appeals surreptitiously to a transcendental model (of freedom as external to power).
Most of the stock for the second task was acquired by surreptitiously making extra copies while carrying out the first task.
The process was sometimes actively encouraged by the missionaries, but more often it took place surreptitiously and even despite opposition.
Surreptitiously reunited, the two lovers contemplate elopement.
She presents herself as if she were straightforwardly answering, and agreeably expressing "concern," while surreptitiously veering away from the question in the way in which it has been framed.
Thirdly, one notices a man surreptitiously removing a £5 note from one's sister's jacket pocket as she is walking down the street and replacing it with a £10 note.
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