surreptitious

Word family

SECRETdone secretly or quickly because you do not want other people to notice 秘密的，偷偷摸摸的，鬼鬼祟祟的

Rory tried to sneak a surreptitious glance at Adam’s wristwatch.

罗里试图偷偷看一眼亚当的手表。

—surreptitiously adverbadv

—surreptitiousness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

surreptitious• Fortunately, his surreptitious action also turned out to be illegal.• Women in nightdresses peeping out of roadside houses lent a surreptitious air to the first few miles.• The back avoids eye contact and confrontation, but it may invite the surreptitious gaze.• Then a little light came through the uncovered spyhole, a flickering, surreptitious light.• The result was that we all kept making surreptitious trips to the staff room to refill our plastic beakers.• Solitary, masochistic, surreptitious vice, that's all he understands.

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