Definitions

secretly

[see-krit-lee] / ˈsi krɪt li /

ADVERB

in hidden manner

Synonyms

STRONGEST

clandestinely covertly furtively personally privately quietly stealthily surreptitiously

WEAK

behind closed doors behind someone's back by stealth confidentially hush-hush in camera in confidence in holes and corners in secret in strict confidence insidiously intimately obscurely on the Q.T. on the quiet on the sly privily slyly sub-rosa under the table underhandedly unobserved

Antonyms

STRONGEST

publicly

WEAK

openly

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secretly

We would all secretly hope that they would get added to the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The Secret Service used a decoy plan to secretly transfer Trump to a smaller aircraft using a catering truck at the Ankara airport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

A surreptitious airport catering truck secretly shuttled Trump to a waiting military plane, which flew him out instead.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Instead of leaving on either that jet or “former” Air Force One, the president secretly hopped into an airport catering truck and shuttled to an Air Force C-32A, a smaller military plane.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

In the 1930s, the Soviets secretly recruited him and a group of fellow students at Cambridge University.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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