Surreptitious has several meanings in today's modern dictionary. It may mean done, made or acquired by stealth, or acting or doing something clandestinely.
He was so surreptitious about his drinking that no one at work knew had a problem.
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.
When the media reported the surreptitious business deals with the legislator's brother, the public demanded a thorough investigation
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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