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furtively

adverb as in slyly

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Bingeing can look different for different people, but for Specter, it involves “shoving food furtively into my mouth as quickly and passively” as possible, she writes.

Some at the top of the Labour Party are beginning to think, if a little furtively, of the aftermath of 4 July, too.

From BBC

As the men entered her home, Ms. Mukantaganda said her husband, a preacher, prayed for her and their two small children and furtively told her where he had hidden some money in case she survived.

She recalls at age 11 furtively trying on her mother’s underwear and dress, then widening her eyes and softening her mouth, as she thought a girl might.

When the boys reached the woods on the edge of their backyard, they looked around furtively and ducked in.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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