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incognito

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Definition 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
  • incognito = with identity hidden
  • I'm incognito.
    Rick Riordan  --  The Titan's Curse
  • incognito = with identity hidden
  • 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

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