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in private
adjective as in off the record
Example Sentences
Even after abolition, Lucumí continued — quietly, often in private homes — as police and officials criminalized anything perceived as “pagan.”
So when ABC executives wanted to speak with him less than two hours before he was set to tape that night’s episode, Kimmel resorted to the bathroom to take the call in private.
But others are fed up of colleagues complaining about the boss, whether the small number who do so in public, or the much higher number who do so in private.
The number of childminders - those providing early years care in private homes - has decreased.
It is an argument that quite a few Labour MPs make, mostly in private: that this government has allowed itself to become too constrained by Treasury orthodoxy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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