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Surreptitious
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods. -- Sur`rep*ti"tious*ly, adv.