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单词 surreptitious
释义
surreptitious
adjective
uk
/ˌsʌr.əpˈtɪʃ.əs/us
/ˌsɝː.əpˈtɪʃ.əs/
donesecretly, without anyoneseeingorknowing:
秘密的，偷偷的；鬼鬼祟祟的
Sheseemedto belisteningto what I was saying, but I couldn'thelpnoticingher surreptitiousglancesat theclock.她看起来好像在听我说话，但我明显注意到她偷偷看了几眼钟。
Synonyms
clandestineformal
cloak-and-dagger
hush-hushinformal
undercover
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
kept hidden from other people
  • secretThe spies had a secret meeting.
  • covertThe government was accused of covert military operations.
  • clandestineHe arranged a clandestine meeting between his client and the candidate.
  • confidentialAll the information you give us will be treated as strictly confidential.
  • classifiedThese documents contain classified information.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Secrecy and privacy
  • anonymity
  • anonymization
  • anonymize
  • anonymous
  • anonymously
  • cryptography
  • data protection
  • dead men tell no talesidiom
  • dissimulate
  • dissimulation
  • privacy settings
  • private
  • privately
  • privileged
  • pseudonym
  • undisclosed
  • whitewash
  • whitewashing
  • wrap
  • wrapped (up) in secrecyidiom
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Related words

surreptitiously
surreptitiousness
(Definition ofsurreptitiousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

surreptitious| American Dictionary

surreptitious
adjective
us
/ˌsɜr·əpˈtɪʃ·əs/
donesecretly, without anyoneseeingorknowing:
a surreptitiousglance
(Definition ofsurreptitiousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsurreptitious

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When the science becomes too intimate with its culture, there are dangers ofsurreptitioususe of the presumed objective findings for ideological arguments.
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He enjoyed wearing exotic non-regulation uniforms and had developed a uniquesurreptitiouswalk that lent an air of subterfuge to everything that he did.
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It is difficult to estimate just how much relativesurreptitiousplanning the various task conditions across studies allowed.
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Such sentiments, however, were based onsurreptitiousmotivations.
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All of this adds further energy to the portrait ofsurreptitiousscheming.
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Thesurreptitiousnature of scientific discovery will be described, as this work may eventually result in a therapy for smallpox.
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In 1929 another law forbad people to move house in towns with over 25,000 inhabitants, but it proved impossible to preventsurreptitiouschanges of residence.
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My action is of many types: a scraping, a buttering, a nocturnal pantry bumbling, a pursuit of asurreptitioussnack, a self-indulgence, a midnight lark.
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This is particularly important because youth with bipolar disorder frequently takesurreptitiousdrug holidays and need to be counseled not to automatically resume the medication at the full dose.
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Given that a primary goal of the volume is to train students to become ethnographers themselves, a note about the unacceptability ofsurreptitiousrecording would have been prudent.
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Bacot moves fromsurreptitiousrecorder of family events to the acknowledged hospital historian.
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This critique included a distinctly political component suggesting that suchsurreptitiousfoisting of meanings tended to serve the interests of institutions and agencies of social control.
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A fourth principle is that early adverse events may affect neurodevelopment in obvious orsurreptitiousways, the latter making it more difficult to prove cause and effect.
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There has been a weakening of significant points bysurreptitiousmeans.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This is a fundamental, ifsurreptitious, change, of which, once again, our voters are unaware.
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