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surreptitiously

/sur-uhp-tish-uhs-lee/US // ˌsɜr əpˈtɪʃ əs li //

暗地里,暗中,暗中的,偷偷地

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a secret or unauthorized way; stealthily: After it surreptitiously installs itself on a user's phone, the spyware program can steal credit card numbers, passwords, and other personal information.

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Examples

  • We’re falling for interventions that feel like the right answer but instead are traps that surreptitiously maintain the status quo.

  • The spyware allowed NSO to surreptitiously collect data from users’ phones, according to the suit.

  • Meanwhile, the company is the subject of an ongoing class action lawsuit that claims it surreptitiously mined Bitcoins purchased by its customers.

  • Afraid of being noticed, Lewis surreptitiously snapped a picture of them.

  • News of what the government had surreptitiously done only spurred people on.

  • Egan claims he was forced to consume alcohol and drugs, while drugs were also surreptitiously added to drinks he consumed.

  • Then, shuffling, she surreptitiously grabs the one he chose with her mouth while pretending to cut the deck.

  • A man sat opposite her, took out his phone, and surreptitiously photographed her eating.

  • Before breaking her heart a second time, he surreptitiously mined intimate details from her life to include in the tale.

  • His surreptitiously recorded "47 percent" remarks were the perfect expression of radical Tea Party ideology.

  • The clerk glanced at it, and surreptitiously showed it to his companion; and both of them looked up at him.

  • She looked at him again and caught him smiling surreptitiously under his heavy gloom.

  • Rick heard the secretary draw in his breath sharply, and he surreptitiously got ready to pump a shell into the riot gun's chamber.

  • Cattledon sniffed at her liqueur-glass surreptitiously before drinking it.

  • Turkey Evans had brought the last strip of an old rag carpet he had taken surreptitiously from an unused room of his home.