furtive

• “She must have heard my steps on the wood stairs, because by the time I walked through the door, she was sitting on the floor near the bed, looking at me with an expression of furtive innocence.”

  Simon & Schuster: Red Flags or Red Herrings?

• “Every now and then, a sister slid grey and furtive from the side gate to hand over coins to buy not acarajé but a pink-and-white striped bag bulging with peeled chunks of sugar cane.”

  BRASIL AS A GIRL

• “Re-search Department at the Foreign Office, and engaged in furtive adulteries.”

  The saint of common decency

• “While the relationship was private, it can hardly be called furtive or clandestine.”

  Jefferson's Concubine

• “He bristled now, recalling their furtive trysts in the woods.”

  Covenant

• “In the light of after events, well did Slavin and Yorke recall the furtive appealing glance the hobo threw at Gully; well did they also remember certain of Kilbride's words: "There'll be quite a lot of things crop up in our minds that we'll be wondering we never thought of before.”

  The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police

• “I may say that I was quite startled by his manner which I can only describe as furtive and uneasy.”

  Death of a Peer

• “If we see this kind of furtive activity in our midst, we are going to be the one pulling guns out of holsters.”

  The Huffington Post: Yuna Shin: "Ground Zero Mosque:" Politics of Fear and Persecution Assail American Character

• “New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly sent many scrambling when he used "furtive" — meaning "done by stealth," derived from furs, the Latin word for thief — to describe how the Times Square bomber looked in surveillance footage.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Our 'Pragmatic,' 'Ebullient' Year of 'Austerity'

• “Bush tortured animals when he was a child, and now he tortures human beings with the same kind of furtive, sniggering, naughty glee.”

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