furtive
US /ˈfɜ:rtɪv/
・UK /ˈfɜ:tɪv/
C1
adj.AdjectiveSo as not to be seen; quietly and secretly
The furtive manner of the army's special forces allowed them to cross the border undetected
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Iran's president killed in crash: BBC News Review
- We have furtive, reverberate, and condolences.
We have furtive, reverberate, and condolences.
- We have: furtive, reverberate
We have: furtive, reverberate
Part 1 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Audiobook by Mark Twain (Chs 01-10)
- He worshipped this new angel with furtive eye, till he saw that she had discovered
He worshipped this new angel with furtive eye, till he saw that she had discovered
- She watched, a furtive glance told her worlds,
She watched, a furtive glance told her worlds,
Part 2 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Audiobook by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures 03-04)
- A lean ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for us upon the platform.
A lean ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for us upon the platform.
- A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly- looking, was waiting for us upon the
A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly- looking, was waiting for us upon the
Part 2 - Anne of Avonlea Audiobook by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Chs 12-20)
- Pendexter has to be back at the hotel by five o'clock." Several times while they were putting away the horse Anne caught Priscilla looking at her in a furtive, puzzled way.
Pendexter has to be back at the hotel by five o'clock." Several times while they were putting away the horse Anne caught Priscilla looking at her in a furtive, puzzled way.
- her in a furtive, puzzled way. "She needn't stare at me so," Anne thought
her in a furtive, puzzled way. "She needn't stare at me so," Anne thought
Book 02 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame Audiobook by Victor Hugo (Chs 1-7)
- It is consoling today, after having lost successively all the pieces of its armor, its luxury of torment, its penalty of imagination and fancy, its torture for which it reconstructed every five years a leather bed at the Grand Châtelet, that ancient suzerain of feudal society almost expunged from our laws and our cities, hunted from code to code, chased from place to place, has no longer, in our immense Paris, any more than a dishonored corner of the Grèves, than a miserable guillotine, furtive, uneasy, shameful, which seems always afraid of being caught in the act, so quickly does it disappear after having dealt its blow.
It is consoling today, after having lost successively all the pieces of its armor, its luxury of torment, its penalty of imagination and fancy, its torture for which it reconstructed every five years a leather bed at the Grand Châtelet, that ancient suzerain of feudal society almost expunged from our laws and our cities, hunted from code to code, chased from place to place, has no longer, in our immense Paris, any more than a dishonored corner of the Grèves, than a miserable guillotine, furtive, uneasy, shameful, which seems always afraid of being caught in the act, so quickly does it disappear after having dealt its blow.
- miserable guillotine, furtive, uneasy,
miserable guillotine, furtive, uneasy,
Part 7 - A Tale of Two Cities Audiobook by Charles Dickens (Book 03, Chs 08-11) !
- Do you want to be the death of me?" asked the man in a furtive, frightened way.
Do you want to be the death of me?" asked the man in a furtive, frightened way.
- the man, in a furtive, frightened way. "Brother, brother!" cried Miss Pross,
the man, in a furtive, frightened way. "Brother, brother!" cried Miss Pross,
Why We Behave As We Do
- The owl is, for example, furtive and nocturnal to help it succeed in crowded habitats with heavy pressures on food supplies.
The owl is, for example, furtive and nocturnal to help it succeed in crowded habitats with heavy pressures on food supplies.
- The owl is, for example, furtive and nocturnal to help it succeed in crowded habitats with heavy pressures on food supplies.
The owl is, for example, furtive and nocturnal to help it succeed in crowded habitats with heavy pressures on food supplies.
Book 10 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame Audiobook by Victor Hugo (Chs 1-7)
- horses in a burning stable, the furtive
horses in a burning stable, the furtive