Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a clandestine manner; secretly; privately; furtively.
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- adverb In a
secret orcovert manner. - adverb In an
illicit way, i.e. not permitted by thelaw orregulations
Etymologies
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Examples
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And usually the source of support for this guerrilla movement comes clandestinely from a source outside the country under attack.
Viet Nam Today 1966
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With the revelation that NATO didn’t know either, this looks like a directive which may have come clandestinely from the Foreign Affairs or Defense Ministry, but I am growing increasingly skeptical that Stephen Harper did not know.
Who Is Running The War In Afghanistan? – Update « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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But Mr. Mohsen, an American citizen, also loved the idea of clandestinely selling weapons to U.S. allies abroad.
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In Paris, in 1854, there were only 4,206 registered 'filles publiques,' when the population of the city numbered 1,500,000 persons; while those who exercised their calling clandestinely were variously computed at 20,000 or 40,000 and upwards to 60,000.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866
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This, not surprisingly, provides the materials, personnel, technology and know-how to develop nuclear weapons anyway, even clandestinely, which is exactly how India and Pakistan got theirs in the first place.
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This, not surprisingly, provides the materials, personnel, technology and know-how to develop nuclear weapons anyway, even clandestinely, which is exactly how India and Pakistan got theirs in the first place.
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This, not surprisingly, provides the materials, personnel, technology and know-how to develop nuclear weapons anyway, even clandestinely, which is exactly how India and Pakistan got theirs in the first place.
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This, not surprisingly, provides the materials, personnel, technology and know-how to develop nuclear weapons anyway, even clandestinely, which is exactly how India and Pakistan got theirs in the first place.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Linda Gunter, AlterNet 2010
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This, not surprisingly, provides the materials, personnel, technology and know-how to develop nuclear weapons anyway, even clandestinely, which is exactly how India and Pakistan got theirs in the first place.
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As it is the protest is targeted against out-going government officials who have "clandestinely" aproved for themselves huge retirement benefits, that do not match up to the economic realities of the country which has just come out of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative.
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