surreptitiously
adverb uk/ˌsʌr.əpˈtɪʃ.əs.li/ us/ˌsɝː.əpˈtɪʃ.əs.li/
秘密地，偷偷地;鬼鬼祟祟地
secretly, without anyone seeing or knowing
Joe surreptitiously had a look in the answer book. 乔偷偷地看了一眼答题本。
an audiotape of the surreptitiously recorded conversation 偷偷录下的对话录音带
See: surreptitious
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- He watched surreptitiously from the hallway, and what he saw and heard made him suspicious.
- If you were surreptitiously checking football scores on your cell phone during Thanksgiving dinner, you're just the sort of person the company is looking for.
- An audio CD of the surreptitiously recorded conversation arrived at the newspaper in a brown envelope with no return address.
- Sometimes spyware is installed surreptitiously when a person visits a website.
- They went undercover to surreptitiously film racers at the illegal events, recording faces and license plates.