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clandestine

/klan-des-tin/US // klænˈdɛs tɪn //UK // (klænˈdɛstɪn) //

秘密,秘密的,隐蔽性,隐秘

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.secret, sly

Examples

  • That turns these well-known characters in neuroscience into double agents, acting obviously as neurotransmitters, but also as clandestine masters of epigenetics.

  • Instead, many travel abroad, search for a clandestine provider inside Poland, or continue their pregnancy.

  • Instead, this Jones adventure takes place in a clandestine video game that was released anonymously, then copied from one audio cassette to another.

  • Leaks have exposed some of the agency’s most clandestine intelligence-gathering operations.

  • I’m outing myself now, obviously, but at the time, our meal felt clandestine and certainly not safe for Instagram.

  • Never mind the huge buildup of clandestine operatives and secret warriors since 9/11.

  • Undeterred by the snub in November, and denied a visa to Italy, Agca made plans for clandestine travel to Vatican City.

  • People there remember rather fondly the clandestine airdrops by the CIA during the 1980s.

  • “Such a clandestine and pathological way of drinking increases the chances of becoming an alcoholic exponentially,” says Alireza.

  • Above them hang portraits of the original clandestine laborers.

  • Sexual immorality is, by its very nature, a clandestine vice.

  • The actual case from which this fiction story was borrowed involved a man, a wife, and the wife's clandestine violinist lover.

  • Is not this consideration of itself sufficient to decide me against undertaking any clandestine correspondence?

  • The Queen saw that her help would really be wanted, and war, even clandestine war, required a great deal of money.

  • If there occurred the least clandestine proceeding, it was only when the danger was not felt—when not the least risk appeared.