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Definition
secret; or conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- It was not an Opera night, and no one was giving a party, so that Beaufort's outing was undoubtedly of a clandestine nature.Chapter 12 (5% in)
- But Mrs. Rushworth was "that kind of woman"; foolish, vain, clandestine by nature, and far more attracted by the secrecy and peril of the affair than by such charms and qualities as he possessed.Chapter 11 (56% in)
- The idea of the stud-farm and the brougham horse had germinated in Archer's mind on the very day when the Emerson Sillerton invitation had first been mentioned; but he had kept it to himself as if there were something clandestine in the plan, and discovery might prevent its execution.Chapter 22 (39% in)
- No more guileless-looking cabinet particulier ever offered its shelter to a clandestine couple: Archer fancied he saw the sense of its reassurance in the faintly amused smile with which Madame Olenska sat down opposite to him.Chapter 23 (97% in)
There are no more uses of "clandestine" in The Age of Innocence.
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