All 4 Uses of
surreptitious
in
Not Without My Daughter
- Surreptitiously he pulled our American passports from his pocket.†
- At dinner that night I surreptitiously spooned through the rice, gathering up several black bugs in one helping, which I piled onto Moody's plate.†
- Moody had surreptitiously drained large sums of cash from our bank accounts before we came to Iran, but he was unwilling to liquidate all of our assets, for that would surely have alerted me to his plans.†
- Had Judy managed to put together some surreptitious plot to get Mahtob and me out of Iran?
*surreptitious = secret
Definition:
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(surreptitious) done secretly or in a manner that avoids notice