furtive English

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What does furtive mean?

furtive

— adjective (= sneak, stealthy, surreptitious) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed a furtive manner a sneak attack stealthy footsteps a surreptitious glance at his watch

— adjective (= backstair, backstairs) secret and sly or sordid backstairs gossip his low backstairs cunning — A.L.Guerard backstairs intimacies furtive behavior

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stealthy

surreptitious

sneaky

clandestine

secret

thievish

hidden

sneaking

sly

covert

concealed

backstairs

underhand

sneak

shifty

secretive

deceptive

cleverness

backstair

undercover

tricky

thief-like

theftful

suspicious

subterranean

stowaway

stolen

squint

snoop

smuggled

slinky

procrastinating

privy

pilfering

occult

oblique

mysterious

hugger-mugger

hole-in-corner

hole-and-corner

hesitating

evasive

esoteric

equivocal

drizzling

cunning

clandes tine

cattish

be tricky