Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a surreptitious manner; by stealth; in an underhand way.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a surreptitious manner; stealthily, furtively, secretly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a surreptitious manner
Etymologies
- From surreptitious + -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If you see a group show up, take their picture, surreptitiously is safer because some of these thugs will hurt you.”
Stopping the stealing of New Jersey. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“Now she has realised that by continuing dishonesty Blair and then Flash have succeeded in surreptitiously nudging the state forward but have forfeited the debate, which they have lost.”
“His clothes were rough and half soaked by the rain that had been falling, while it became apparent as we talked that he had landed surreptitiously from a Dutch fishing-boat early that morning and had not dared to show himself.”
“Babylon "-- (a title surreptitiously accorded Percival by the unforgiving lady) -- before committing herself too deeply to the enterprise.”
“SANCHEZ: Does it bother you that the information was gathered surreptitiously, that is to say, somebody went in there and fooled the director of CAIR into thinking he was their friend?”
“It is happening quietly and incrementally—in rulings by distant courts, in hearing rooms on Capital Hill and obscure federal agencies, in the digital code that Hollywood and record labels surreptitiously implant into DVDs and CDs.”
“A French admiral leaving with a fleet for America wrote Lafayette, I sent word surreptitiously and secretly four times to Paul Jones to come and place himself in our convoy.”
“At least this is no super-subtle modernist divine dealing out old coins surreptitiously stamped with a new image and superscription, but a plain blunt heretic who knows his mind (or, rather, mood).”
“Anything contrary to this would be tantamount to obtaining public funds surreptitiously, which is unlawful.”
“If you do it non-surreptitiously, that is, by making a normal phone call and holding the phone up to your ear so that everyone knows you are on the phone, then it's not surreptitious and not actually comparable at all to what is being described here.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘surreptitiously’.
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Tristram Shandy
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HollieGolightly's list
indigo, flippant, quaint, ebullience, subterfuge, conspicuous, surreptitiously, kodachrome, doppelganger, hullabaloo, nabob, motley and 21 more...
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ept
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Favorite Words
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catinthehat345's List
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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generationnext's Words
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Favorites
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floozy, mandalay, mandible, x, don't, will, ridiculous, funily, stuff, junk, doody, manning and 152 more...
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mstuckings's Words
defenestrate, lacklustre, vulgarise, simplistic, generative, astonished, elated, strident, aliquot, deliquescent, pipette, subjunctive and 104 more...
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The New Yorker
prejudice, ignominious, quintessence, disparity, vanguard, repudiated, eclectic, dredge, taxonomy, pugnacious, surreptitiously, pudgy and 113 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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parlerodermime's Words
loquacious, orange, lackadaisical, rhythm, esoterrorist, contrary, enchanted, extraordinary, nymph, chatter, incessant, time and 168 more...
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years!
skulduggery, subterfuge, surreptitiously, adsorption, copacetic, rambunctious, discombobulated
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To Learn
Words to learn via rote repetition.
atechnic, veridical, abjure, recrudescence, acquisitiveness, adipocere, alembic, adventitious, aliment, alimentiveness, amativeness, anterior and 111 more...
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mkluver1 "He surreptitiously retrieve the dagger." I read this somewhere in Tithe by Holly Black. Oct 1, 2010