Covertly
['kʌvətli]
Definition
(adv.) Secretly; in private; insidiously.
Checker: Wilmer
Examples
- She consulted his face when she could do so covertly, as she worked or read, and could make nothing of it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The boy's right,' remarked Fagin, looking covertly round, and knitting his shaggy eyebrows into a hard knot. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Checker: Wilmer