OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 5800

surreptitious

/ˌsʌɹɪpˈtɪʃəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
subrepticio
Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).
He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
It is also worth noting the case law on prisoners' correspondence which establishes that interception of a person's communications need not be surreptitious in order to amount to a…
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