furtively

Adverb

Meaning

Stealthily by theft.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

on the sly surreptitiously secretively incognito underground indirectly secretly quietly stealth intimately mysteriously covertly sneaking slyly stealthily

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Antonyms

directly clearly publicly deliberately openly overtly

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Phrases with the word

move furtively go furtively

Examples

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.' Randall Munroe

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality. Carl Jung

the soldiers were furtively crawling through the night Source: Internet

A small brown rodent, scurrying furtively this way and that. Source: Internet

I was wearing her in her carrier, and he kept glancing around furtively, saying stuff like, “Man, if any of my buds from work see me, they’re going to be so confused, haha.” Source: Internet

He glanced around the room furtively, looking for an escape. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

furtive furtive cell furtive forktail furtiveness furtivity furtle