surreptitiousness
Example Sentences
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The suggestion of surreptitiousness works as drama - but in reality, his exclusion was even more publicly brutal.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024
This pen has adjustable camera settings that allow users to change the exposure, white balance, contrast, saturation, and more, so amateur auteurs don’t have to sacrifice the quality of their recordings for surreptitiousness.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2018
He was uncomfortable with “that whole feeling of a certain kind of surreptitiousness, why didn’t so-and-so come to the funeral, but they loved him and they’re very close.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2014
But no animal could mimic all the varities of mankind's surreptitiousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The surreptitiousness that seems to inhere in pork-pies prompted Mr. Moggridge to slip the pie into his trousers' pocket--for his coat was off, and a white apron had taken its place.
From The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] by Richard Le Gallienne
