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covert
adjective as in clandestine, underhanded
Example Sentences
"There was nothing flash about him at all, nothing screamed this person is a drug dealer," said the covert officer who led the surveillance of Robert Andrews Jr.
Over the years, the U.S. government has authorized covert actions, but officially it’s always been a law enforcement issue in which the Coast Guard arrests suspected drug runners and turns them over to the authorities.
In the digital landscape, the political cartoon, once a staple of the American newspaper, has fallen by the wayside, crushed under a mountain of current events and covert biases.
The Scottish Parliament said that police had searched all toilets and changing rooms but found no "covert recording devices".
The Scottish Parliament confirmed that police had searched all toilets and changing rooms but found no "covert recording devices".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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