furtively
Example Sentences
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Indeed, students spoke furtively of the dark arts of circumvention.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2025
I spotted one man with a hammer and a flashlight looking furtively around my son’s neighborhood.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2025
Some at the top of the Labour Party are beginning to think, if a little furtively, of the aftermath of 4 July, too.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2024
What’s not taught is that it hurts, as if a little creature is furtively rubbing your vocal cords with sandpaper.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023
At the bottom of a stairwell leading to the school basement, a boy crouched, furtively eating his lunch.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
