WordNet
adj. designed and carried out secretly or confidentially; "a sub-rosa report"; "has their under-the-table backing" [syn: under-the-table, behind-the-scenes]
Usage examples of "sub-rosa".
Harry saw the gesture and reflected cynically on the foolishness of a profession in which sub-rosa byplay was an accepted, even rehearsed, part of the practice.
Littell (the Chicago Phantom who has worked for us sub-rosa since early 1959) is a 1940 Bumma Cum Laude Notre Dame Law grad, Federal-Bar licensed.
Natalie's puppet show, a Punch and Judy which she got up to amuse the children, has become, with Udam's corrosive dialogue, a sub-rosa ghetto hit.
Did the UAES brain trust fall for Considine's sub-rosa move--planting newspaper and radio pieces that said the grand jury investigation had gone down--and just how strongly is UAES connected to the Communist Party?