Furtive
['fɜːtɪv]
Definition
(adj.) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; 'a furtive manner'; 'a sneak attack'; 'stealthy footsteps'; 'a surreptitious glance at his watch' .
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Definition
(a.) Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Stolen, stealthy, surreptitious, clandestine, secret, sly.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stealthy, clandestine, secretive, secret, sly
ANT:Open, public, undisguised, unreserved, unconcealed
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Definition
adj. stealthy: secret.—adv. Fur′tively.
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Examples
- I remembered the furtive hatred in her face when she said, There is no news of Sir Percival that I don't expect--except the news of his death. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She looked like a woman with a monomania, furtive almost, but heavily proud. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Loerke pulled himself together, rose, quivering, looking full at Gerald, his body weak and furtive, but his eyes demoniacal with satire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She looked full into his face, and her dark, inchoate eyes had now a furtive look, and a look of a knowledge of evil, dark and indomitable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The strong emotion was rarely suffered to influence her tongue, and even her eye refused it more than a furtive and fitful conquest. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She glanced at his reflection with furtive eyes, willing to give anything to save him from knowing she could see him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had a strange furtive pride and slinking singleness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A flicker of her eye beamed furtive on the professor's face. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I think they both cried a little in a furtive manner, while Dorothea ran down-stairs to greet her uncle. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The topics to which it wanders are unavowed and hence intellectually illicit; transactions with them are furtive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The man looked up at him with a grimace of a smile, furtive, unsure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The work was done in a detached, furtive, and inglorious manner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even after this, Marco's accounts of the size and population of China were received with much furtive mockery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for us upon the platform. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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