surreptitious

CEFRC2

/ˌsʌɹɪpˈtɪʃəs/

adjective

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adjective
Done secretly to avoid being noticed.
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adjective
Extra detail
Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).

Examples

The surreptitious gesture went unnoticed by the rest of the room.
There is more than a fine line between unspoken rizz and surreptitious sexual harassment.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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In context

He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
It is also worth noting the case law on prisoners' correspondence which establishes that interception of a person's communications need not be surreptitious in order to amount to an interference with respect to Art 8 (1) [ECHR].

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He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
It is also worth noting the case law on prisoners' correspondence which establishes that interception of a person's communications need not be surreptitious in order to amount to an interference with respect to Art 8 (1) [ECHR].
1998, Lee A. Bygrave, “Data Protection Pursuant to the Right to Privavy in Human Rights Treaties”, in International Journal of Law and Information Technology, volume 6, number 3,...

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Borrowed from Latin surrēptīcius (“furtive, clandestine”), from surrēpō (“to creep along”).