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furtiveness

/fur-tiv/US // ˈfɜr tɪv //UK // (ˈfɜːtɪv) //

叛逆性,愤怒,诡计多端,叛变

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
    • : sly; shifty: a furtive manner.

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Examples

  • Future detections will further illuminate the furtive movements of these mysterious objects.

  • His eyes never moved, yet I sensed a furtiveness as marked as if he had peered suspiciously about.

  • And a new furtiveness—born of the new realisation—assailed her when at last she stepped from the cab at her own door.

  • The lawyer regarded him covertly, and noticed the furtiveness of his eyes, but Palliser sighed.

  • When she came out of her room they eyed her with a certain grim furtiveness, and they never said a word to her about Ephraim.

  • Masons furtiveness may, of course, have fooled even the publisher.