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Surreptitious has several meanings in today's modern dictionary. It may mean done, made or acquired by stealth, or acting or doing something clandestinely.

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A sentence with the word surreptitious?

He was so surreptitious about his drinking that no one at work knew had a problem.


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It's SURREPTITIOUS. It means obtained or done by stealth. Here are some sentences.Her surreptitious phone calls to her lover eventually were discovered by her husband.They set up a surreptitious watch on the criminal's house.


Use surreptitious in a sentence?

When the media reported the surreptitious business deals with the legislator's brother, the public demanded a thorough investigation


What is the root word of surreptitious?

surreptitious broken down into its word parts: sub- or its variant (in this case)sur- means "less than normal, under, below, secretly" + -rap- which means "to seize" (other words containing the same word part are rape, ravish, rapture, rapacious, raving) + -ious which means "full of, tendency to, characteristic of" so literally surreptitious means "secretly seizing characteristic".A mnemonic acronym to recall the meanings for sub- is you're secretly SUBLeTtiNg (secretly, under, below, less than normal) a sub to an unsuspecting diplomatic tenant.


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