covertness

Example Sentences

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For all his reputation for covertness, Nixon's real problem was his inability to conceal the darkly busy workings of his mind--the wheels turning, the eyes darting.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw the bright Hampstead buses, and the masked covertness of the flitting taxis.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

That military reticence that no civilian could justly appraise might be parent to the officer's indefinite responses, and, if so, its covertness must be respected.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville

And if there had been a certain covertness about their behaviour when, after a month, they had returned, what a venial and pardonable subterfuge, to what a tremendous end!

From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]