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Surreptitious

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Surreptitious meaning

Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).

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The EU’s surreptitious role aside, Mr Chamisa’s handling of the funds now threatens to split the party.

Funny, dark and timely, this novel is perfect for readers who enjoy satires, immigrant narratives, and surreptitious take-downs of productivity culture.

Goff said he was hoping to get a “surreptitious DNA sample” from Momeni’s cigarette butt, but noticed the purported pantomiming motion as he observed the two men speaking.

In the past, Sanders has used the evidentiary hearing process to unmask the surreptitious use of jailhouse informants, leading to one of the largest criminal justice scandals in the nation.

But as the COVID-19 outbreak spreads, governments may find it hard to resist strongarm tactics, possibly even employing surreptitious means.

Kiriakou is the author of Doing Time Like a SpyCIA Guide to Disappearing: The Ultimate Guide to InvisibilityCIA Guide to Surveillance and Surveillance Detection: The Ultimate Guide to Surreptitious Observation.

One day, as the surreptitious spread of white light and the decline of orange light had been weighing on my mind for some time, I went to the old convenience store around the corner and asked for a 75-watt bulb.

While the COVID-19 crisis has always been a sort of insidious threat–one that can’t be seen or heard until it’s upon us, and which picks and chooses who it intends to sicken or kill–there’s nothing subtle or surreptitious about a fire.

All the women we spoke with today fear that often the surreptitious video or "upskirt" pictures taken by men end up getting posted on the web.

CIA-instigated coups and surreptitious military backing of autocracies increased the amount of intra-state and regional wars, ethnic cleansing, and jihadi terrorism worldwide – from South America to Africa and Asia.

More than half of the 2018 cases involved images, including illicit filming, distribution of nude photos and upskirting — the surreptitious filming or taking of photographs under girls’ and women’s clothes — it added.

Perhaps Musharraf was somewhat aware that he was doing something surreptitious not only by stabbing the Kashmiri struggle in the back but also by keeping the foreign office in the dark.

A couple of gaudy pink-and-blue “name your baby” books on my reference shelf have provoked double-takes from visitors over the years, and a few surreptitious glances at my belly.

A state made rich by oil stands behind the team, they say, adding that its sponsoring contracts are nothing but a surreptitious path for Abu Dhabi money to flow into the club.

At an after-ballet party, arranged by her aunt as a surreptitious audition, she meets Boris Lermontov ( Anton Walbrook ), the ruthless but charismatic impresario of the Ballet Lermontov.

At the end of August came SPOTS—Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly, a surreptitious UK tour with the band playing under pseudonyms to avoid cancellation.

Clearly express questioning (interrogation) would qualify but the concept also extends to surreptitious attempts to acquire information from the defendant through the use of undercover agents or paid informants.

Massiah applies to overt and surreptitious interrogation.

Surreptitious BASE jumps are often made from tall buildings and antenna towers.

The concept of plutocracy may be advocated by the wealthy classes of a society in an indirect or surreptitious fashion, though the term itself is almost always used in a pejorative sense.