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on the Q.T.
adjective as in covert
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in lubricious
Weak matches
- clandestine
- concealed
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceptive
- devious
- dirty-dealing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- disingenuous
- double-crossing
- duplicitous
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hush-hush
- indirect
- insidious
- oblique
- on the quiet
- secret
- secretive
- shady
- shifty
- slippery
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- under wraps
- undercover
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unscrupulous
- wily
adjective as in off the record
adjective as in privileged
adjective as in secret
Strongest matches
adjective as in secretive
adjective as in subterranean
adjective as in subterrestrial
adjective as in surreptitious
adjective as in uncommunicative
adjective as in undercover
adjective as in underground
adjective as in underhand
Strong match
Weak matches
- clandestine
- concealed
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceptive
- devious
- dirty-dealing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- double-crossing
- duplicitous
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hush-hush
- indirect
- insidious
- oblique
- on the quiet
- secret
- secretive
- shady
- shifty
- slippery
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- sub-rosa
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- under wraps
- undercover
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unscrupulous
- wily
adverb as in covertly
adverb as in huggermugger
adverb as in off the record
adverb as in secretly
adverb as in stealthily
Example Sentences
“I think we’re effective when we operate with a low profile and on the Q.T., really, for a lot of different reasons,” he said.
Then he went upstairs on the Q.T. and had a cup of coffee.
"Putting on all they can on the Q.T.," was the response.
He told us a few minutes later that he had sold seven such samples on the Q.T. and that he was going to have to mix up another brew!
If the note is straight goods I've got to work on the Q.T.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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