clandestinely

clandestine | American Dictionary

clandestine
adjective
us/klænˈdes·tən/
planned or done in secret:
a clandestine meeting

clandestinely

adverbus/klænˈdes·tən·li/
The virus clandestinely burrowed its way into computers across the globe.

Examples of clandestine

clandestine
Officially, ecclesiastical matrimony had thus replaced secular, private, and clandestine marriage.
But the clandestine nature of this connection makes it difficult to prove.
Their works were consequently banned from public exhibition and became symbols of a clandestine artistic discourse.
The clandestine nature of political corruption, for example, is a case in point.
The end of their clandestine existence and the exercise of ' going public ' helped them to re-evaluate their objectives and functional dynamics.
But the contraceptive trade was a clandestine trade and birth control was not publicly discussed in the early years of this century.
It would appear that a good many border-dwellers became involved in this clandestine trade.
This is partly a story, then, about the clandestine build-ups behind the lines.
The author emphasizes that these should by no means be necessarily characterized as 'clandestine'.
The bulk of urban party activity migrated to the unions, but activists also worked within a range of clandestine organisations.
Notable among these was gambling, whose flexibility and familiarity accommodated many of the constraints of clandestine prison activities.
The economic bustle provided a veneer of economic prosperity that hid the continuing depredations of military attempts to eradicate clandestine resistance.
Excluding those clandestine marriages of which evidence was given.
They're small, representative mobilizations of what is normally an after-hours, clandestine scene.
They have wanted war, they have been waging it upon us for three years, but in a clandestine, hypocritical, roundabout manner.
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