surreptition

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"Father Goose" and "Petticoat" (which Ted Turner used to love showing on New Year's Eve back in the early to mid Eighties, when I was just old enough to stay up without surreptition but not old enough to make any proper use of the holiday) were formative movies for me too.

Time catches up with all of us, even Cary Grant 2010
Then, as if in that silent greeting their souls had made a too loud and startling noise of welcome, both of them looked about with an effect of surreptition and alarm.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914