surreptitious

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
surreptitious /ˌsʌrəpˈtɪʃəs/

▶adjective covert or clandestine.

– derivatives
surreptitiously adverb,
surreptitiousness noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘obtained by suppression of the truth’): from L. surreptitius (from surripere, from sub- ‘secretly’ + rapere ‘seize’) + -ous.

'surreptitious' also found in these Oxford entries:

crib - high sign - keek - kite - sly - stealth - trapdoor

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