He was so surreptitious about his drinking that no one at work knew had a problem.
When the media reported the surreptitious business deals with the legislator's brother, the public demanded a thorough investigation
Your surreptitious methods have destroyed our relationship.
His surreptitious activities were unknown even to his closest friends.
The surreptitious toddler found a way to sneak my favorite watch into the garbage can during the night. The toddler surreptitiously dropped the watch in the garbage can.
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.
The second team of commandos will rely on the successful surreptitious entry to the area of attack by the first commando team. I don't like my manager's surreptitious ways.
When the media reported the surreptitious business deals with the legislator's brother, the public demanded a thorough investigation
The girl across the room smiled at my surreptitous glance.
Suzy surreptitiously put a love note into the locker of the guy she liked
Surreptitious has several meanings in today's modern dictionary. It may mean done, made or acquired by stealth, or acting or doing something clandestinely.
A surreptitious kiss is a secretive or furtive kiss, often done in a hidden or sneaky way to avoid detection by others. It is typically done to maintain privacy or secrecy in a situation where public displays of affection may not be appropriate.
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.