Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a secretive manner; with a tendency to secrecy or concealment.
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- adverb In a
secretive manner.
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- adverb in a secretive manner; with a preference for secrecy
Etymologies
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Examples
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I guess the word "secretively" set my teeth on edge.
Rate Your Students 2008
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Calling up the companies to either redirect my statements, pay them off or "secretively" sneak behind my ex's back .... what a fucking load of bullshit.
moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2002
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Every year they are forced to hang out together as their parents meet secretively for some charity event, it is thought.
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If a for-profit wants to spend secretively, then they can send their dollars through a non-profit who will do the political spending for them.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy: The Apocryphal Midterm Election Ciara Torres-Spelliscy 2010
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The new disclosure rules were the result of criticism the committee operated too secretively.
House Ethics Investigators Extend Buchanan Probe Brody Mullins 2011
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Every year they are forced to hang out together as their parents meet secretively for some charity event, it is thought.
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The prices Diamond pays were set secretively by Mr. Mendes with the help of a few other executives, former employees said.
'Big' Was Diamond CEO's Style Hannah Karp 2012
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But even as he secretively searches her apartment for something that will reveal the identity of her former lover, he also gains unexpected insight into his ex-wife.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Nora's Will Marshall Fine 2010
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Democracies like the United States changed policies publicly and slowly, whereas a dictatorship could “move secretively and selectively.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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But even as he secretively searches her apartment for something that will reveal the identity of her former lover, he also gains unexpected insight into his ex-wife.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Nora's Will Marshall Fine 2010
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