surreptitiousness

Novelist, historian and drinks-scribbler Bernard DeVoto thanked the speakeasy culture of the '20s for ending all that: "Prohibition sanctioned women to share liquor with men frankly, without surreptitiousness or shame."

Potions Fit for Wooing

Surreptitious flirting is always fun especially now that we are both single so the surreptitiousness is self imposed.

fragile-liar Diary Entry

And more than that, perhaps a variation on the old axiom of whenever you count on surreptitiousness, someone is sure to be looking.

Death on the River Walk

She recalled past incidents, a quick switcharound when she appeared, an air of surreptitiousness, baffled half-suspicions.

The Stars Are Also Fire

She recalled past incidents, a quick switcharound when she appeared, an air of surreptitiousness, baffled half-suspicions.

The Stars Are Also Fire

That movement carried with it a suggestion of surreptitiousness, as if it must be hidden from any watcher.

Sorceress of the Witch World

Mr Cecil, half hidden behind a cypress and hardly less sorrowfully dark in trappings of full Juanese mourning bought for the occasion and really too amusingly chic for words, scribbled away in his sketch book with ostentatious surreptitiousness and confided to Louvaine that probably this was the best turn La Lane had ever done to anyone in her life …

Tour de Force

Tess -- anyway, to a fifteen-year-old surreptitiousness seems to add zest to any communication.

Missy

Perhaps a kind of public surreptitiousness, a quite open furtiveness, had troubled him.

Here are Ladies

There had been in her movement a sort of perfection of surreptitiousness that was animal.

In the Wilderness