adjective
- Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed.
- usage: "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"
- synonyms: sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious
- Secret and sly or sordid.
- usage: "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning- A. L. Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
- synonyms: backstair, backstairs
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