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[ adverb ] in a surreptitious manner
Synonyms Examples "he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby" Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)Recently , for_example , a paranoid woman 's large-scale philosophizing , in the session , about the intrusive curiosity which has become , in her opinion , a deplorable characteristic of mid twentieth century human culture , developed itself , before the end of the session , into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast , as indeed I was . |
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