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Webster 1828 Edition
Surreptitiously
SURREPTI'TIOUSLY
,adv.
Definition 2024
surreptitiously
surreptitiously
English
Adverb
surreptitiously (comparative more surreptitiously, superlative most surreptitiously)
- In a surreptitious manner; stealthily, furtively, secretly.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall, The Squire's Daughter, chapterI:
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall, The Squire's Daughter, chapterI:
Translations
in a surreptitious manner
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