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hidden — usually of a motive or purpose for doing something

She says she's helping out of kindness, but I suspect she has ulterior motives.

The report is untrue. It serves only to advance the union's ulterior motives.
The legislation completely dovetails with the ulterior motives of the domestic sugar industry.
There were no deep manipulative ulterior motives.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
He wanted time and the absence of ulterior pressure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
The desperation melted and, for the briefest of moments, the ulterior motives were gone.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
I'm probably one of the few people in the country right now who unhesitatingly, and without an ulterior motive, is on her side.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
There was no telling when the god's ulterior motive might be disclosed.
Jack London -- White Fang
I think you have an ulterior motive.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
The strange part was that he couldn't perceive an ulterior motive for his impulses.
Nicholas Sparks -- True Believer
After all, Mom didn't seem to have any ulterior motives, at least none that I can figure.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
There are moments when the inner life actually "pays," when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
I should have recalled that you are just like me and that you never do anything without an ulterior motive.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Secondly, my conscience is perfectly easy; I make the offer with no ulterior motive.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
Love, I know, isn't something to secondguess, but in my world, love is always defined by ulterior motive.
Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
Nor did he have any ulterior motives.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
Who knows, this may have been Lalla's ulterior motive.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
I didn't let on that we had dark ulterior motives.
Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
But luxury as the power itself is different—luxury without anything ulterior.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
I enjoyed the praise, of course, and Moody was grudgingly proud, but I had an ulterior motive.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

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