surreptitious

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Surreptitious dealings with a high-stakes Vegas gambler could imperil Jeff Shell’s role in Paramount Skydance as it looks to merge with Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Surreptitious recording is something Mr. Dean knows all too well: Mr. Nixon taped 37 of their conversations in the White House.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2017

Surreptitious, sur-rep-tish′us, adj. done by stealth or fraud.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

It is the fallacy of Surreptitious Assumption, and all cases of Enthymematic or Elliptical argument, where the unexpressed links in the chain of argument are not fully understood, are examples of it.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

Surreptitious good is so rare, that when it is found out it very naturally gets mixed up with secret evil, and the perpetrator of the hidden good deed feels guilty of a crime.

From The Sowers by Merriman, Henry Seton