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furtively

/fur-tiv-lee/US // ˈfɜr tɪv li //

偷偷摸摸地,偷偷地,偷偷摸摸,鬼鬼祟祟地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a surreptitious, secret, or stealthy way:For decades, people living under Soviet censorship listened furtively to the news from the free world beamed by Radio Free Europe or the Voice of America.Moonshine is untaxed liquor, furtively produced by the light of the moon—or at least out of the immediate reach of law enforcement.
    • : in a sly or shifty way:In the next scene, he darts furtively into a pharmacy storeroom to steal poison.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as insecretly
Synonyms
clandestinely秘密地,悄悄地,秘密的,秘密covertly偷偷地,秘密地,隐蔽地,偷偷摸摸地personally个人,本人,亲自,个人方面privately私下里,私底下,私下,私下里说quietly悄悄地,静静地,悄悄的,安静地stealthily偷偷摸摸地,悄悄地,偷偷地,隐蔽地surreptitiously暗地里,暗中,暗中的,偷偷地behind closed doors闭门造车,闭门不出,闭门谢客,闭门羹behind someone's back背地里的人,背地里说人话,背地里,背着别人by stealth隐形,隐身,隐蔽性,隐秘性confidentially保密性,秘密地,私底下,保密hush-hush遮遮掩掩,掩耳盗铃,遮遮掩掩的,遮遮掩掩地in camera不公开,摄像中,摄像,摄像机中in confidence在信心,在信心方面,在信心上,在信任in holes and corners在孔和角落里,在孔洞和角落里,在洞和角落里,在孔和角落中in secret秘密地,秘密的,秘密,悄悄地in strict confidence严格保密,绝对保密,严守秘密,严格的保密insidiously阴险地,隐隐约约地,隐蔽地,隐隐约约intimately紧密地,密切,密切地,紧密obscurely默默地,暗中,默默无闻,默默无闻地on the qt在QT上on the quiet在安静的,在安静的环境中,在宁静的,在安静的地方on the sly偷偷摸摸地,偷偷摸摸,暗地里,偷偷摸摸的privily私下里,私下,偷偷地,私底下slyly狡猾地,狡猾的,偷偷摸摸地,偷偷地sub rosa潜水艇,潜水员,潜水器,潜水under the table桌下,桌子下面,桌子底下,桌子下underhandedly暗地里,偷偷摸摸地,偷偷地,暗暗地里unobserved未观察到的,未被观察到的,未观察到,无人知晓的

Examples

  • The labels are just one of Apple’s new policies to give users more privacy at the possible expense of the app economy, which largely relies on collecting and selling furtively acquired user data.

  • We don’t understand what it’s made of or what its properties are, but it’s out there in the celestial background, furtively holding the Milky Way together.

  • I still remember, years ago, furtively kissing my girlfriend in my childhood bedroom at my family’s during the holidays.

  • First off, there’s a big difference between furtively flowed mouth sex with George Clooney and having sex with George Clooney.

  • I had barely seen another human for months, and those were mostly fellow face-masked shoppers on furtive grocery missions.

  • Afterward, Oswald develops the photographs at his job, furtively.

  • The appeal: they are “judgment-free zones where the like-minded can mingle freely and furtively.”

  • On the night of Feb. 11, 2011, Sherif Mansour walked onto his balcony, furtively lit a cigarette, and began to cry.

  • Schon, Michaele once furtively told me, was one of the true loves of her life.

  • “I think people are furtively hoping that Hillary runs,” she said.

  • Brisley and Gunn, standing very close together on the bottom step of the stair to the third floor, watched the police furtively.

  • On calm days there came sinister vessels that sneaked furtively among the fleet.

  • Her eyes, veiled behind the long lashes of their drooping lids, followed him furtively.

  • Cash would sit and watch him furtively; but Bud was too engrossed with his own misery to notice it.

  • Professor Theobald looked furtively round, as if seeking some one, or watching the effect of his conduct on Mrs. Temperley.