furtive
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DJing this “worldwide hardcore rodeo” — which won’t stop until sunrise — will be Brooklyn-based headliners Tygapaw and Satronic alongside D.C. talents Furtive, Gabberbitch69 and Limitbreak!.
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2020
Furtive, ratlike mammals lived in the gloomy understory.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2019
Furtive shaming groups are also the perfect foil to the highly public and performative Insta-weddings that constitute so much of our online consumption.
From Slate • Aug. 27, 2018
Furtive, quiet, he seemed to be trying to alert my guy, Ralph, and by extension, me, the reader, to something.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2016
Furtive eyes, no doubt, were following his every movement, their owners eager to pursue their own affairs the moment danger had passed.
From The Black Phantom by Miller, Leo E. (Leo Edward)
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