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furtive

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1. furtive - Adjective

2. furtive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing. Mason Cooley

Mrs Prentice: Are you ashamed of the fact that you write to strange men? Prentice: There's nothing furtive in my relationship with the editor of The Guardian. Joe Orton

I was scuttling along in my usual furtive way, suspecting no ill, when a large invisible thumb descended from the sky and pressed down on the top of my head. A poem formed. Margaret Atwood

You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you. Megan McCafferty

backstairs gossip Source: Internet

his low backstairs cunning Source: Internet

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