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clandestine

If something is clandestine, it is done or kept in secret so as to hide an illicit purpose.

clandestine

(= cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods clandestine intelligence operations cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines hole-and-corner intrigue secret missions a secret agent secret sales of arms surreptitious mobilization of troops an undercover investigation underground resistance

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Simple sentences

He was suspected of being active in a clandestine movement.

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This is supposed to be a clandestine affair.
You can't have a clandestine affair between three people.
Yet you saw nothing wrong in having a clandestine meeting with a woman?
The black market; clandestine buying, selling and killing.
The clandestine distillery.
I'm tired of clandestine love.
I did not make any clandestine dates.
I think your father leads a clandestine activity in the country.
If it was a clandestine payment, why did it have to have a cover name as well?
We use interrogation as the only valid police method against clandestine activity.
He underwent a clandestine marriage, in the shadow of the black church.
You went to a clandestine meeting the day before his arrest.
According to declarations you signed, and to testimonies you denounced the Clandestine Central Committee to the Gestapo thus indirectly provoking the execution of Fucik.
Klecan denounced Fulk and the Clandestine Central Committee to the Gestapo?
None of the clandestine festivities has welcomed you!
That anarchist is the poet who has been insulting the Queen in those clandestine publications.
I'm being sent clandestine publications which cover me with dirt. and which are being tolerated by the police.
A patient issues orders to a nurse? That's as bad as a clandestine meeting.
You must sign this declaration in which you acknowledge and confirm that you took part in a clandestine meeting at night with a certain lady called Irma.
Her little hint fits in with what we know about this area-- a center for sabotage, clandestine operations, commandos, everything!
Your husband was a clandestine, an Austrian spy.
You're losing it and you're doing clandestine advertising to boot.
Your friends, as it turns out, are suspected of belonging to a clandestine organisation. planning the overthrow of our Emperor ruling here by the grace of God and they mean anarchy.
Churches were banned, but there was a clandestine practice.
I will stay clandestine.
There's nothing like a clandestine meeting.
I mean, uh, this is supposed to be a clandestine operation.
For bringing you to places like this, for our clandestine meetings.
Togetherwith a handful of my barracudas,..coordinated with the clandestine centre at Grottacelata,..I'll parachute into the sea near the Tiber estuary.
You opened the roots to the surface. You made clandestine contact with aliens. And you beamed radio transmissions out into space.
Clandestine abortions are performed. by police officers on women!
As a result of this, certain categories of clandestine operation were ruled ipso facto out of bounds.
Clandestine vigilance 24 hours daily.
Quark always makes his clandestine calls after the bar closes.
Well, just don't get clandestine on me. That's all I'm saying.
But instead of being, of being grateful, instead of being 'romanced' you're instantly convinced that I'm ensconced in some decrepit tacky, underhand clandestine affair!
I have a clandestine kid on board.
Some folk like to do their courting clandestine-like.

News and current affairs

Additional elements of current policy that seem to be having an effect are clandestine efforts aimed at impeding Iran's ability to import sensitive technologies.
For Israel, fear is essential both as a source of motivation, owing to its position among Arab countries, and a source of protection, through its status as a clandestine nuclear power.
After a decades-long clandestine (although tolerated) existence within Egyptian society, Islamist forces were able to take advantage of the Tahrir protests, despite playing no integral part in them.
The unwillingness of more than half the NPT membership to apply the Additional Protocol, which gives the IAEA new flexibility to uncover clandestine nuclear activity, undermines global security.
That's why the political talks - open and clandestine - now reported to be underway are vital.
Umberto Bossi, the League's leader, made three promises before the last elections: to reduce the tax burden; to halt clandestine immigration; and to devolve powers from the central government in Rome to regional administrations.
Only intervention by US Vice President Dick Cheney two and a half days later secured the release of the soldiers, who were alleged to have been planning clandestine operations within the Kurdish zone.
Having been refused permission to transfer out of the clandestine nuclear weapons program, Dr. Ibrahim Bawi had put his family in his government-supplied car and driven north.
Following the news of Almeyda's clandestine meetings, yet another fugitive, Daniel Borobio, made damaging revelations.
The Basel Convention, now 20 years old, has struggled to keep up with new technologies, unpredictable loopholes, and clandestine economic transactions involving hazardous waste.
Fourth, export controls have failed to prevent the spread of sensitive nuclear technology, not least due to the sophisticated efforts of clandestine networks like the one run by Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan.
Most new revelations about Pakistan's nuclear scandal focus on the clandestine supply of uranium enrichment technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya by the celebrated bomb-maker Dr. A. Q. Khan.
Would it be possible to detect in advance clandestine activity aimed at producing one, and, if so, what would Iran have to pledge in the matter of inspections and checks, and how might such pledges be obtained?
During the Iran-Iraq war, Ronald Reagan's national security adviser, Robert McFarlane, paid a clandestine visit to Iran with the approval of the country's highest authorities, to pursue a deal that would have been to Iran's advantage.

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