Crossword clues for surreptitiously
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surreptitious \Sur`rep*ti"tious\, a. [L. surreptitius, or subreptitius, fr. surripere, subripere, to snatch away, to withdraw privily; sub- under + rapere to snatch. See Sub-, and Ravish.] Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods. -- Sur`rep*ti"tious*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a surreptitious manner; stealthily, furtively, secretly.
WordNet
adv. in a surreptitious manner; "he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby" [syn: sneakily]
Usage examples of "surreptitiously".
Winterbones, when the above ill-natured allusion was made to the aroma coming from his libations, might be seen to deposit surreptitiously beneath the little table at which he sat, the cup with which he had performed them.
Surreptitiously, they lead the sciences of life, labour, and language back to that analytic of finitude which shows how man, in his being, can be concerned with the things he knows, and know the things that, in positivity, determine his mode of being.
They obeyed immediately, Assh surreptitiously trotting ahead and busying himself sniffing amongst the piles of refuse that lined the street, and Frey dropping back and crossing to the other side to do the same.
The young man would masturbate while surreptitiously videotaping the women as they changed costumes.
But the real territorialization of the Internet - the redrawing of its internal contours and the withdrawal of its libertarian foundations - is more pernicious, all-pervasive, quotidian, and surreptitiously gradual.
He reached surreptitiously under the wheel housing, something snapped, then he pulled out two guns, Spitzer jim-jim automatics, and thrust one at Cale with a grin.
The two girls, sitting together in the light surf, who had been surreptitiously focused on the men, now stood up, eyes wide, their mouths falling open.
Angevine was motioning at Shekel surreptitiously as she and Tintinnabulum moved slowly toward the door.
Neko checked the compensation line on his sheet, and surreptitiously compared it to the sheets held by one of the razorguys and The Weeze, on either side of him.
She lurked abovestairs, surreptitiously watching from behind the balustrade, prepared to duck and cower at any moment.
Bertram made a grimace at Arabella across the table, and Harry dug her surreptitiously in the ribs with his elbow.
Kedrigern, now uglier than Bondo had ever been, was brooding over the ways of princes, Bondo surreptitiously peered into the basin for another, longer look at himself.
He had shaved, gargled with a sharp mouth-wash, and now, in a battered black and white dogtooth suit, dark blue Sea Island cotton shirt and black silk knitted tie, he was walking softly, but not surreptitiously, along the corridor to the head of the stairs, the, square leather case in his left hand.
Surreptitiously Nicky looked across at the fruitwood table in the center of the room.
As he fed the parrot, he surreptitiously felt along the tailfeathers as he did every time Gayo visited.