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under-cover
adjective as in secret
Strongest matches
adjective as in secretive
adjective as in stealthy
adjective as in surreptitious
adjective as in undercover
adjective as in underground
adjective as in underhand
Strong match
Weak matches
- clandestine
- concealed
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceptive
- devious
- dirty-dealing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- double-crossing
- duplicitous
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hush-hush
- indirect
- insidious
- oblique
- on the Q.T.
- on the quiet
- secret
- secretive
- shady
- shifty
- slippery
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- sub-rosa
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- under wraps
- undercover
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unscrupulous
- wily
adjective as in veiled
adjective as in cloak-and-dagger
adjective as in lubricious
Weak matches
- clandestine
- concealed
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceptive
- devious
- dirty-dealing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- disingenuous
- double-crossing
- duplicitous
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hush-hush
- indirect
- insidious
- oblique
- on the Q.T.
- on the quiet
- secret
- secretive
- shady
- shifty
- slippery
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- under wraps
- undercover
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unscrupulous
- wily
adjective as in clandestine
adjective as in sneaking
adjective as in subterrestrial
adjective as in covert
adjective as in disguised
adjective as in furtive
Strongest matches
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in hush-hush
adverb as in covertly
adjective as in obscured
adjective as in ulterior
adverb as in clandestinely
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adverb as in inside
Strongest match
Weak matches
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Example Sentences
Then, under cover of the night, they went out and confronted the Italians.
But under cover of this benign neglect, the region has dramatically changed, mostly for the better.
It's pure banana republic stuff, but American style, done under cover of law and legitimacy.
Priam the King humbles himself by risking everything, coming in by himself under cover of night.
American forces swept in after midnight Sunday, under cover of darkness.
He thus decoyed them away, and the fortunate couple were enabled to reach the British lines under cover of the darkness.
Two companies deployed over a swamp and went along the beach under cover of the Utah Battery.
We scanned the opposite side for sight of MacRae, but saw nothing of him; he kept close under cover.
During that night it crossed the Danube, under cover of the terrific thunderstorm which hid the French advance from the Austrians.
Under cover of this they crawled towards a large pond on which ducks were resting but by no means asleep.
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On this page you'll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to under cover, such as: buried, concealed, cover, guarded, hidden, and implied.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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