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with identity hidden — such as via a disguise or false name- They are travelling incognito.
incognito = with hidden identity (perhaps false names or even disguises)
- I'm traveling incognito,J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- I'm incognito.Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
- At night the young Lord was conducted incognito into our apartment, where his father presented him to me.Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
- The tension of living incognito wore on him.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- But here's the part she has surely failed to imagine: once they're in the States, she'll be incognito.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- MEPHISTOPHELES I'm mostly used, 'tis true, to go incognito, But on a gala-day one may his orders show.Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
- Because he lacked a good map, the cable spanning the river also remained incognito.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- I could not believe I had to go incognito on a school field trip.Gaby Rodriguez -- The Pregnancy Project
- Maybe the Old Man will shake the GPU by traveling incognito around the country.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- In any case, Nessie is going to have to be incognito off and on in the next few weeks.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- "A Frenchman or a Russian prince incognito," said the officer, looking at Pierre's fine though dirty linen and at the ring on his finger.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- Later on, Mr. Brown was surprised traveling incognito, in a third-class coach and they made him sign another copy of the demands.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- I came here very much incognito.Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
- His new shield, with the blazon of his incognito, was propped in front of him.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- They had tried arriving unannounced and traveling incognito but they were not spies and the efforts were pitiful.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- His incognito tour only confirmed his hunches about what was going on in Clarkston.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- If his son wants to remain incognito, then that's as it should be, he can't see him and that's all there is to it.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- I poke up my face, barely over the seat, look out the back window, fingers crossed I remain incognito.Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
- "Then I must trouble you to give him my card," Alexey Alexandrovitch said with dignity, seeing the impossibility of preserving his incognito.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
incognito = with identity hidden
incognito = with identity hidden
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