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  • 101clandestine — I adjective arcane, behind the scenes, camouflaged, clandestinus, cloaked, collusive, concealed, confidential, conspiring, covert, cunning, disguised, ensconced, evasive, furtive, furtivus, hidden, in the background, irrevealable, masked, obscure …

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  • 102concealed — I (confidential) adjective abstruse, clandestine, cloaked, covert, cryptic, delitescent, disguised, evasive, furtive, impalpable, latent, lurking, obscure, private, privy, recondite, secret, secreted, shrouded, stealthy, surreptitious, ulterior,… …

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  • 103covert — I adjective clandestine, cloaked, concealed, covered, cryptic, cryptical, dark, delitescent, disguised, furtive, hidden, insidious, invisible, latent, muffled, mysterious, mystic, mystical, nonapparent, occult, out of sight, private, screened,… …

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  • 104furtive — I adjective backstair, catlike, clandestine, cloaked, concealed, covert, crafty, cunning, deceitful, evasive, feline, furtivus, hangdog, hidden, indirect, insidious, masked, mysterious, private, secret, secretive, shady, shifty, shrouded, sly,… …

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  • 105sly — I adjective arch, artful, astute, astutus, calculating, clandestine, conniving, covert, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deceptious, deceptive, delusive, designing, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, disingeuous, double… …

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  • 106surreptitious — I adjective artful, clandestine, clandestinus, concealed, conniving, covert, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delitescent, disguised, done by stealth, evasive, faked, fraudulently introduced, furtive, furtivus, guileful, hidden, indirect,… …

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  • 107insidious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. deceitful; treacherous. See deception, improbity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deceptive, ensnaring, treacherous, stealthy; see dishonest 1 , false 1 , secret 3 , sly 1 . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 108sneaky — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. furtive, sly, underhanded. See secret, deception.Ant., open, aboveboard. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. tricky, deceitful, unreliable; see dishonest 1 , 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a.… …

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  • 109surreptitious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. stealthy, clandestine. See concealment.Ant., overt. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. clandestine, private, covert; see hidden 2 , secret 3 . See Synonym Study at secret . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… …

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  • 110slinky — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sleek, sinuous, serpentine; see graceful 1 , smooth 1 , 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. skulking sneaky, creeping, stealing, lurking, prowling, slippery, quiet, stealthy, furtive. 2. Sl. graceful sinuous, feline …

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