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Webster 1828 Edition


Surreptitiously

SURREPTI'TIOUSLY

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adv.
By stealth; without authority; fraudulently.

Definition 2024


surreptitiously

surreptitiously

English

Adverb

surreptitiously (comparative more surreptitiously, superlative most surreptitiously)

  1. 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.

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