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Definition

done in a secret or hidden way

Much more rarely, covert is used as a noun to describe a hidden or sheltered place.

covert intelligence gathering

covert funding for the rebels
[looks at him with covert scorn.]
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler

covert = hidden

...last night, when Hanna, Sean, Mona, and a bunch of other kids were hanging out in Jim Freed's cedar hot tub, covertly drinking Coronas, Sean had taken All-American Boy Scout up a notch.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

covertly = secretly

As we sat at the table, Otto Fuchs and I kept stealing covert glances at each other.
Cather, Willa -- My Antonia
How covert matters may be best disclosed,
Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar
A covert glance at her face, as he walked beside her, showed him that she had not expected his ready assent to that proposition.
Dickens, Charles -- Our Mutual Friend
Anne understood this covert reproach and was more moved than irritated by it.
Dumas, Alexandre -- Twenty Years After
And stole into the covert of the wood.
Shakespeare, William -- Romeo and Juliet
It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.
Wharton, Edith -- Ethan Frome
Jace was studying the menu, which gave Clary the opportunity to covertly study him.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
40:21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
The Bible -- Job
He was a veritable existential identity crisis, a male stripper with more aliases than a covert CIA agent.
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
Oh, she could stand the cuts, the slights, the covert smiles, anything the town might say, if she had to stand them—but not Melanie!
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
The waiting at the covert side-then they sound the tally-ho, do they not?
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
There they lay for a while, too tired yet to eat; and peering out through the holes in the covert they watched for the slow growth of day.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
He leaned from his covert and peered over the rim.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
Survival is a continuous negotiation, as you have to barter covertly for every service the government pretends to provide, but actually doesn't.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Then his eye caught the tall, ominous, familiar figure crossing the square, watching him covertly over its shoulder.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
And thither the guide conducted them, careless of whistling partridges and lesser birds of brighter hues roused whirring from the reedy coverts.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur

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