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secret; or conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods- She is involved in clandestine intelligence operations.
clandestine = secret or hidden
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done with or marked by hidden aims or methods
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done with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- a clandestine interview in the back kitchenDickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
- a clandestine radioAnne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Or union, without witness—secret— Clandestine—can be easily dissolved If we survive.Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Two days after our manifesto a "clandestine" radio started beaming to Terra.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Comrade Mundt made a clandestine journey to Finland—once more allegedly in the interests of the Abteilung.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- I never yet encountered the mere mathematician ... who did not clandestinely hold it as a point of his faith that...Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter
- we've extracted them all from the clandestine archives,Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- I'm thinking about Plutarch showing off his pretty, one-of-a-kind watch to me. There was something strange about it. Almost clandestine.Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
- The school itself was a secret place; while the authorities allowed the refugees to live citizenless in the camps, they forbade them to conduct schools, making education clandestine, carried out under guard.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- What's a clandestine radio when there are already clandestine Jews and clandestine money?Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- What's a clandestine radio when there are already clandestine Jews and clandestine money?Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire.Austen, Jane -- Northanger Abbey
- Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire.Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
- You say you were Mrs de Winter's prospective husband, and that you held clandestine meetings with her in that cottage on the beach.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- He suggested to Rieux that he should avail himself of this clandestine channel, and Rieux agreed to do so.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- Kate would have loved to sneak down to the culvert again, but this was not a clandestine operation.Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
- More than once, Laila had wondered what the Taliban would do about Kaka Zaman's clandestine lessons if they found out.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- I showed Nathan the next morning, the two of us stooping furtively over our coffees in the kitchen as if we were doing something properly clandestine.Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- Most of the remaining 35,000—clandestine denizens of the so-called interghetto—dwelt in despair amid the ruins like hunted animals.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
clandestine = secret or hidden
clandestine = secret
clandestine = hidden
clandestine = done with hidden aims
clandestinely = secretly
clandestine = hidden
clandestine = secret (with a hidden objective)
clandestine = secret
clandestine = secret or hidden
clandestine = secret or hidden