furtiveness

Mercy’s furtiveness — call it an extreme aversion to confrontation — is echoed across the generations.

Every voter in Washington will have to spend the next decade voting in congressional and legislative districts constructed by this sloppy furtiveness.

But the routine is time-consuming, with a furtiveness that often feels “weirdly like I was doing like a drug deal or something,” he says.

Mr. Biden’s stonewalling of transparency requests deprives him of the high ground in pointing out Mr. Trump’s furtiveness.

In Stafford, there is the kingdom of childhood in all its taboos — its furtiveness and griminess, the arcane rituals and untethered sensuality.