About The Word Furtive
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Furtive
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What's The Definition Of Furtive?
[adj] secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
[adj] marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows" Synonyms | Synonyms for Furtive: backstair | backstairs | concealed | covert | lurking | skulking | sneak(a) | sneaky | stealthy | surreptitious Related Terms | Find terms related to Furtive: artful | back-door | backstairs | calculating | chiseling | clandestine | collusive | conspiratorial | covert | covinous | crafty | cunning | deceitful | doggo | false | falsehearted | feline | finagling | foxy | fraudulent | guileful | hidden | hidden out | hidlings | hole-and-corner | hugger-mugger | in ambush | in hiding | in the wings | indirect | insidious | lurking | on tiptoe | private | privy | prowling | pussyfoot | pussyfooted | quiet | scheming | secret | secretive | sharp | shifty | skulking | slinking | slinky | slippery | sly | sneaking | sneaky | stealing | stealthy | surreptitious | treacherous | trickish | tricky | two-faced | under cover | under the table | undercover | underground | underhand | underhanded | under-the-counter | under-the-table | unobtrusive | untrustworthy | waiting concealed | wily See Also | Furtive In Webster's Dictionary \Fur"tive\, a. [L. furtivus, fr. furtum theft, fr. fur
thief, akin to ferre to bear: cf. F. furtif. See {Fertile}.]
Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret;
stealthy; as, a furtive look. --Prior.
A hasty and furtive ceremony. --Hallam.
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