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furtive
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The Nickel Boys
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- If Peter didn't have practice, they wandered the record stores and furtively checked out the covers of LPs they were forbidden to buy.†
p. 38.3 *furtively = while taking pains to avoid being observed; or in a nervous manner (as though hoping not to be seen)
- They parked behind the five-and-ten, Fisher's Drugs, and phoned ahead to the local doctor, who slithered up to the driver's window with a furtive air.†
p. 91.3
- Hardee had brought his wife, a robust beauty whose every visit was thoroughly annotated by the students, if furtively—reckless eyeballing called for mandatory beatings.†
p. 107.3furtively = while taking pains to avoid being observed; or in a nervous manner (as though hoping not to be seen)
Definitions:
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(1)
(furtive) taking pains to avoid being observed
or:
in a manner indicating nervousness (being cautious or appearing suspicious) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)