clandestine

CEFRC1

/klænˈdɛst(a)ɪn/

adjective

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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2005 — Stewart Lee, 90's Comedian DVD And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.
clandestine military operations
Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire. Mr. and Mrs. Morland never did.

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Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire. Mr. and Mrs. Morland never did.
1818, Jane Austen, chapter 31, in Northanger Abbey
Wildeve's clandestine plan with her was to take a little gravel in his hand and hold it to the crevice at the top of the window shutter, which was on the outside, so that it should fall with a gentle rustle, resembling that of a mouse, between shutter and glass.
1878, Thomas Hardy, chapter 11, in The Return of the Native
Lady Bullingdon could not, of course, countenance such an arrangement for a moment, and the two unhappy persons escaped for a clandestine marriage.
1912, G. K. Chesterton, chapter 9, in Manalive
Bodies were always a nuisance -- even the small guinea-pig bodies from the slight clandestine experiments in West’s room at the boarding-house.
1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator
The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee!
1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 128

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From Latin clandestīnus (“secret, concealed”); compare French clandestin.