covertly

Adverb

Meaning

Secretly; in private; insidiously.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

incognito indirectly secretly quietly anonymously intimately mysteriously invisibly obscurely slyly stealthily confidentially furtively undercover backstage
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Antonyms

overtly clearly publicly deliberately openly frankly
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Phrases with the word

covertly enter

Examples

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. George Herbert

he did it covertly Source: Internet

"As evidenced by the Snowden leaks, the United States has been covertly accessing telecom networks worldwide, spying on other countries for quite some time," the spokesman said. Source: Internet

An Army special operations team is airdropped into Japan to support covertly inserted Comanche helicopters. Source: Internet

A group of FSB officers were covertly inserted into Rodchenkov’s doping control team. Source: Internet

Blondlot repeated his most recent experiments and got the same results—despite the fact that Wood had reached over and covertly sabotaged the N-ray apparatus by removing the prism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

coverthound covertism covertless covertly enter covertness coverture