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furtive
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synonyms: surreptitious, clancular, sub-rosa, hugger-mugger ???
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Definition:attempting to avoid notice or attention, suggesting guilty nervousness
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She addressed him as Bert, and when he furtively pressed her hand beneath the table-cloth she made no attempt to withdraw it.
W. W. Jacobs. Sailor's Knots
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The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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Nobody talks much, though there is a rustling, and the women’s heads move furtively from side to side
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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I watched the professor furtively as Ukridge talked on, and that ominous phrase of Mr. Chase's concerning four-point-seven guns kept coming into my mind.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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Furtively, as I helped Cory off with his clothes and into his yellow pajamas, I studied that tall, big woman, who was, I presumed, our grandmother.
V.C. Andrews. Flowers in the Attic, p.44 (1979)
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It made him furtively happy to suspect that there were probably other parts of his memory that had been missed as well. Why this suspicion should make him furtively happy he didn’t know.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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