On the sly

Usage examples of covertly.

Moreover, in the case of Iraq, removing the regime covertly would theoretically eliminate the need for us to replace it with another.

From his point of view, once the United States made the commitment to arm the Northern Alliance, even covertly, it was taking action to initiate regime change, and it should give those opponents the strength to achieve complete victory.

In addition, all of the governments of the region know that the moment the United States unleashed a new war against Saddam, he would strike back any way he could--overtly and covertly, by economic, political, and military means--and that they would be his most likely targets.

To get the men covertly to and from the Russian ice island, LeSchack turned to the CIA.

The fact that Lieutenant Davies, finding Moore and Rupp actually so weak from lack of food that they could hardly drag one leg after another, had been sharing with them his own slender store of provision was not the first thing the men had noted in his favor, but that was no reason, thought Devers, why they should raise their voices and glance covertly in his direction when referring to it.

Covertly opening that eye which remained in the heavy shadow, separating the lashes by little more than the width of a hair, he could make out a large room, upholstered and carpeted in green, with green-shaded electroliers above two billiard tables that stood ghastly and bier-like beneath their blanketing covers of white cotton.

Everyone was covertly watching Charrel, looking even more troubled than usual, sitting at one end of the table and poking darkly at his food - and Oni, sitting nearby, her eyes fixed on him.

Frazier, code name Rumdum, is a highly effective and covertly much-decorated undercover agent for the federal government.

It had, Brant mused, nothing to do with the fact that Suz Anne was covertly caressing his crotch with one hand as she pretended to search her handbag with the other.

Now covertly, the customers observed the three visitors, squinting sideways, as the urisk had augured.

Nevertheless I could hardly forget that out of this very same Heliopolitan tradition the great myth of Isis and Osiris had flowed, covertly transmitting an accurate calculus for the rate of precessional motion.

Covertly, Myshkin is a cultural sponge whose capacity for absorbing pain and evil sacralizes passivity.

Festhold encoder was covertly removed by one of our I-Class ships from a ruined Festhold command center following a recent heavy Stath raid.

In fact, if the necessary number of signatures can be collected covertly, a store can be unionized before management even knows an organizing drive is under way.

The men with whom he had had large dealings he had treated as enemies rather than friends, ever watching them covertly with close but unslackening vigilance.