surreptitiously English

Meaning surreptitiously meaning

What does surreptitiously mean?

Definitions in simple English

— If you do something surreptitiously, you do it in secret. As they were speaking, he surreptitiously took the diamond.

— adverb in a surreptitious manner he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby

What other words have the same or similar meaning as surreptitiously?

stealthily sneakily secretly clandestinely furtively on the sly in secret by stealth vaguely unobservedly uncertainly sub rosa sneakingly slyly slinkingly quietly in secrecy in hiding do secretly behind someone’s back