SURREPTITIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surreptitiously mean? 

• SURREPTITIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb SURREPTITIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a surreptitious manner

  Familiarity information: SURREPTITIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURREPTITIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a surreptitious manner

Synonyms:

sneakily; surreptitiously

Context example:

he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby

Pertainym:

surreptitious (marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed)

 Context examples 

He had to eat as he had never eaten before, to handle strange tools, to glance surreptitiously about and learn how to accomplish each new thing, to receive the flood of impressions that was pouring in upon him and being mentally annotated and classified; to be conscious of a yearning for her that perturbed him in the form of a dull, aching restlessness; to feel the prod of desire to win to the walk in life whereon she trod, and to have his mind ever and again straying off in speculation and vague plans of how to reach to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)