Definitions
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- adjective designed and carried out secretly or confidentially
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Examples
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NORRIS: If the Democrats do maintain control of the Senate, and if Harry Reid manages to win, it's still been widely reported that there are some hard-charging Democrats who are working quietly on the sort of sub-rosa campaign to possibly replace him.
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And is your new job, by any chance, on Burgess's sub-rosa mayoral campaign?
McGinn’s Budget Briefing: Gloom, Doom, and Reorganization « PubliCola 2010
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My spidey sense tells me there will be a sub-rosa accusation of anti-semitism.
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NORRIS: If the Democrats do maintain control of the Senate, and if Harry Reid manages to win, it's still been widely reported that there are some hard-charging Democrats who are working quietly on the sort of sub-rosa campaign to possibly replace him.
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There's no sub-rosa structure that allows for the copyrights of playwrights to be easily abused.
Argument For Copyright Protection Undermined By Half-Baked Metaphor About Shakespeare Jason Linkins 2011
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Negotiations, some of them sub-rosa, are part and parcel of doing business and establishing liasons with other naitons.
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And why would you make even a sub-rosa racial appeal to Ted Kennedy?
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And why would you make even a sub-rosa racial appeal to Ted Kennedy?
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And why would you make even a sub-rosa racial appeal to Ted Kennedy?
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There's no sub-rosa structure that allows for the copyrights of playwrights to be easily abused.
Argument For Copyright Protection Undermined By Half-Baked Metaphor About Shakespeare Jason Linkins 2011
wolfnotes commented on the word sub-rosa
see sub rosa
December 11, 2008