Definitions

behind someone's back

ADVERB

huggermugger

Synonyms

WEAK

behind closed doors by stealth clandestinely confidentially covertly furtively hush-hush in camera in confidence in holes and corners in secret in strict confidence insidiously intimately o obscurely on the Q.T.

ADVERB

secretly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

clandestinely covertly furtively personally privately quietly stealthily surreptitiously

WEAK

behind closed doors by stealth confidentially hush-hush in camera in confidence in holes and corners in secret in strict confidence insidiously intimately obscurely on the Q.T. on the quiet on the sly privily slyly sub-rosa under the table underhandedly unobserved

Antonyms

STRONGEST

publicly

WEAK

openly

Example Sentences

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behind someone's back

Okay, maybe sometimes my jokes are a little mean, but I only make those jokes behind someone’s back.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio