Both Uses of
covert
in
David Copperfield
- After stooping to put the bottle on the ground, he looked up at the windows, and looked about; though with a covert and impatient air, as if he was anxious to be gone.†
Chpt 46-48 *
- But I declined these offers; being already aware that there were plenty of such covert practitioners in existence, and considering the Commons quite bad enough, without my doing anything to make it worse.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(covert as in: a covert plan) done in a secret or hidden way