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Not surprisingly, the machinations by all involved explain why “Byzantine” has come to mean devious and surreptious, among other meanings.
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Flashing text, things that move around the page, to animation/video that DEMAND my attention while I am trying to read just piss me off, and now surreptious tracking with cookies and javascripts have me totally incensed.
AOL Brings Out the Penguins to Explain Ad Targeting - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Not surprisingly, the machinations by all involved explain why “Byzantine” has come to mean devious and surreptious, among other meanings.
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* Joe Klein predicts a surreptious campaign by military leaders to get Obama to back off on Afghanistan deadlines by portraying him as weak and indecisive on the war in the runup to the midterms.
Labor Day Roundup 2010
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David Davis has said today, on the pavement, 'insidious, surreptious and relentless erosion' of liberties and of 'the slow stangulation of British freedoms by this Government.'
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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When the most memorable moment in a conversation is a surreptious cookie munch, it puts one in mind of a previous post about the joys of solitude.
Why the hell is Giuliani the keynote speaker for the Republican convention? Ann Althouse 2008
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But I do not trust them not to try something surreptious.
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Over the next two months, the affidavit details, Abramoff asked for and received Savanian's personal assistance in arranging a surreptious visit to federal property he wanted, calculating which congressmen could be approached and corrupted for help, and plotted using various decoys like a "short term lease" to get Abramoff's nose under the federal property tent.
Archive 2005-09-01 Beach Blogger 2005
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Over the next two months, the affidavit details, Abramoff asked for and received Savanian's personal assistance in arranging a surreptious visit to federal property he wanted, calculating which congressmen could be approached and corrupted for help, and plotted using various decoys like a "short term lease" to get Abramoff's nose under the federal property tent.
The Safavian Affidavit Beach Blogger 2005
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To attack Adam in this surreptious way was low, mean and shabby.
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