covertly
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Etymology
From Middle English covertli, equivalent to covert + -ly.
Adverb
covertly (comparative more covertly, superlative most covertly)
- In a covert manner, secretly.
- 1999, Barbara Tepa Lupack, Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies, page 123:
- Only a little removed from the predatory oafdom of male adolescence, he is suspicious of Christian and covertly protective of Cher's person and future.
- 2009, Seth Schwartz, Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?, page 134:
- Shimon’s interestingly stereotypical role as a conformist, but in reality covertly resistant, dominand […] is accentuated in the second half of the story[.]
Translations
secretly — see secretly
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