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covertly

[ US /koʊˈvɝtɫi/ ]
[ UK /kə‍ʊvˈɜːtli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a covert manner
    he did it covertly

How To Use covertly In A Sentence

  • I dunno," said the plaguesome boy, looking at the address covertly. Janice Day at Poketown
  • Terrorists have been operating covertly in England for several years.
  • Writing in the British journal New Scientist, the famed poet and historian Robert Graves said in 1972, "Technology is now warring openly against the crafts, and science covertly against poetry.
  • Later, in postdivorce, I covertly launched a personal blog under a pen name. MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Everywhere in the city the tension is papable, we have always had the sense that the jim crow mentality was beneath the surface but with all the racially devisive inuendo being put out by Mccain/Palin the rippling currents of animosities that haven’t been felt here covertly for a very long time are boilng beneath the surface. Evening Buzz: 18 days to go
  • Vendors and retailers dealing in pirated products, either covertly or overtly, pose an omnipresent temptation to already vulnerable consumers
  • 'Corn observed them covertly, hoping to leam something that might be useful in his relationship with Nepe. Here There Are Monsters
  • It's not subtly or covertly homophobic for a soap to have a gay character experience homophobia, is it?
  • As large buyers of flights and hotel rooms, consultancies can arrange with travel agencies to deliver covertly discounts of about 40 per cent.
  • Footage recorded covertly showed a nurse announcing her intention to give morphine to a resident'to shut her up'. Times, Sunday Times
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