surreptitious

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With the camera on the dashboard, the vehicle becomes a surreptitious mobile set with Panahi and his co-stars mostly improvising their dialogue, some of it as cutting as anything intentional.

From Los Angeles Times

Others find decoys to place in their pouches, pocketing their real devices for surreptitious use throughout the school day.

From Los Angeles Times

A sheriff’s jail supervisor testified that Baker also tried to leave coded kites — a surreptitious method of inmate communication using handwritten binary code on paper — in a courthouse stairwell that the widow used after him.

From Los Angeles Times

After the couple found out about her surreptitious sterilization, “All our plans came tumbling down.”

From Los Angeles Times

It was suggested it had been conducted by the UK to be able to blame Russia "as part of a sort of bizarre and surreptitious intelligence operation of some variety", he added.

From BBC