furtiveness

Example Sentences

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Cera brings an amusing furtiveness to Eric, but also a devastating sense of the roiling feelings within.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

In Stafford, there is the kingdom of childhood in all its taboos — its furtiveness and griminess, the arcane rituals and untethered sensuality.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2019

The gallery also is showing Paolo Morales’s “Between You and Me,” a suite of black-and-white photos that evoke isolation and furtiveness in downscale American suburbs.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2017

I initially reached out to the page’s admins because I love a conspiracy theory, but aside from a general furtiveness, the admins didn’t sound like prosthelytizers, just concerned citizens.

From The Verge • Aug. 25, 2016

It was one-thirty in the morning, but in spite of the hour and her turned-up coat collar, there was no air of furtiveness about her at all.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison