How To Use Surreptitiously In A Sentence
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Newsweek's editor was targeted this spring by an internet campaign that used surreptitiously recorded footage showing him, as well as opposition politicians, in compromising situations.
Publisher Shuts Russian Weekly
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If the test fails , the ticket - user has obtained ( perhaps surreptitiously ) another person's ticket.
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An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
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The 1827 restrikes are well known because of the rarity of issues for the year, and were most likely surreptitiously made in the late 1850s, some with rusted dies and some overstruck on older quarters (a piece struck on an 1806 quarter is known).
Capped Bust Quarter, Large Size, 1815-1828 : Coin Guide
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So Thomas decided to exact revenge by surreptitiously placing a vicious computer virus on Scott's machine which destroyed his hard drive.
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The light was so-so, and I took the photos surreptitiously and quickly, as the proprietors of many stores do not like people taking photographs inside.
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Adware maker 180 solutions has sued seven former distributors for using networks of compromised computers to surreptitiously install its software on users' PCs.
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His boyfriend at the time felt me up surreptitiously in the back of the car while Derek chattered excitedly to us from the front.
G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday"
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My dad probably viewed it as a way of surreptitiously dosing us with cricket rules, and regrets it to this day.
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Blinds and windows can be surreptitiously opened.
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In the final analysis, the ideology of radical diversity surreptitiously promotes a political program of the same kind.
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On August 7, 1974, French funambulist Petit, then 24, performed an astonishing high-wire act on a cable that he and his accomplices had surreptitiously rigged between the north and south towers of the World Trade Center.
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Surreptitiously, he sniffed at it as he raised it to his lips, then took a small sip.
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I can see it now, future intervals at English National Opera being characterised by hordes of opera-loving smokers surreptitiously tippling their Tennants Super as they overspill into the periphery of Trafalgar Square.
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If romantic interest is reciprocated, young men and young women will visit surreptitiously at night under the cover of darkness.
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There are also modifications for people doing the workout surreptitiously at their desks.
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As she fingered through them, searching for the one that would unlock the main door, the keys jangled, causing Rena to surreptitiously look around.
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I was relying on peripheral vision for this, while surreptitiously focusing at chest height.
THE MANANA MAN
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It is strangely unclassifiable television - a caustically comic, surreptitiously sudsy thriller that has alienated a whole tranche of strait-laced Americans and so delighted many more.
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Surreptitiously I pointed to my purse and raised my eyebrows at her.
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Sadly, unscrupulous ski resorts might misuse the new polymer, surreptitiously dusting it on the slopes of their rivals.
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The most likely route of attack would be surreptitiously planting a bomb or bombs, not attacking in recognizable groups that could be deterred or counter-attacked by aerial bombing or firing guns or missiles from helicopters.
William Hartung: Rethinking the Saudi Arms Deal
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Freegans in New York and Seattle claim to have subsisted for years by dining out surreptitiously at their neighbourhood dumpsters, undermining meal by meal the evil corporations' irresponsible pursuit of profit.
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Compared with most large projects, this is a bagatelle, but the surreptitiously radical design that makes such poetic sense of the pixel is a gutsy move.
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I once "heared" Sedalia Lane telling some of her experiences, and she said she "surreptitiously stole along.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
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In its portrayal, former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, R-TX, is wearing a suit so much nattier than his normal attire I thought a group of conservative Republicans had surreptitiously lobbied Bravo to revive “Queer Eye.”
A Troubling Time
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In his death, they are surreptitiously besmirching his reputation to gain political protection.
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They surreptitiously give aid to the family.
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It was there that I was able to surreptitiously cross-examine these men.
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The Honor often protected independent merchants from privateers and raiders surreptitiously sponsored by the Trade Federation.
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[1] Sir William Petty's Political arithmetick which was written in 1676, surreptitiously published in 1683, under the title of England's guide to industry [anon], and issued with the author's name in 1690, seven years after his death.
Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts]
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Raising his hand to the knocker, Jon surreptitiously crossed his frozen fingers.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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They gave as their reasons for this aloofness the facts that delegates from the Central powers, with whom the United States was still at war, were in attendance; that the meeting was held "for the purpose of arranging socialist procedure of an international character"; and that the convention was irregularly called, for it had been announced as an interallied conference but had been surreptitiously converted into an international pacifist gathering, conniving with German and Austrian socialists.
The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners
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In addition, ransom payments should not be filmed and media vehicles should not surreptitiously tail police cars to avoid blowing their cover, he added.
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It is strangely unclassifiable television - a caustically comic, surreptitiously sudsy thriller that has alienated a whole tranche of strait-laced Americans and so delighted many more.
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Many programs that surreptitiously access the internet go undetected by users.
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During OPEVAL, Carlson had bought a microcassette tape recorder and surreptitiously taped meetings on maintenance data.
The Dream Machine
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he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby
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The practice becomes illegal when done surreptitiously to cheat the consumer or defraud the taxman.
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I surreptitiously sniffed at my own armpits and wrinkled my nose a little.
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The CD-ROM didn't contain a virus per se, because a virus circulates mainly across computer networks, entering a computer surreptitiously the way a disease organism enters a living host (hence the term virus).
The Bear and the Dragon
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It's called "gazumping" in England, the process by which someone selling a piece of property accepts an offer from one buyer, maybe even going so far as to shake hands on it, then quickly — and often surreptitiously — accepts another, higher, offer from a second buyer, leaving the first buyer with his pockets agape and his heart broken.
Philocrites: One thing you don't learn in seminary.
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For this, we surreptitiously captured live on audio two young men who we will call Zek and Zak, dressed in baggy clothes with baseball caps turned backwards, both feeling a little zonked out sitting around at a Mall.
How To Find Yourself (or a reasonable facsimile)
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Once we reached the library, we three signed in, and Kelsey surreptitiously drifted away, fetching the large tome and bringing it to the room where we were doing our shift.
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An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
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An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
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Being at once an extreme skeptic and an extreme believer generated in Dostoevsky a chronically antinomic state of mind which he surreptitiously relished, I believe, even as he tried to conceal it from his readers and especially from his patrons, including the renowned Pobedonstsev who belonged to aristocratic and official circles.
A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky
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Breaking from TheGreenGrok formula of sharp, cutting-edge pieces on the environment, let's discuss words -- let us surreptitiously slip into the world of the etymologist for a few minutes.
Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology
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They went on about benefits, making ends meet and why New Labour is so out of touch with the plight of those on the dole as I nodded surreptitiously into my pint, earwigging all the while.
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Satan retreated, hid himself, surreptitiously arose again, awaited his chance, taking advantage of unguarded and weak moments, and in one word demeaned himself as a very live and sagacious Satan.
The Bride of Dreams
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Waiting for the train, she glances surreptitiously through the commuters at the lovely young thing walking down the platform unawares.
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Honest Roger, the red-haired coachman, would have looked like a clown in a pantomime, in front of a fashionable equipage; and Simon the footboy, who slouched at my back, would have been mistaken for an idle urchin surreptitiously enjoying a ride.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829
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However, every time Rudolph turned his back, the band (in their usual mischievous way) would surreptitiously displace a tom-tom or a speaker, causing Roddy to become increasingly agitated.
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So the commercials can say the candidate for insurance commissioner is fighting the very insurance industry that is surreptitiously funding the advertisements.
Jamie Court: President Should Stop BP Administrator Feinberg From Helping The Chamber Of Commerce
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When a communist Oswald snuffed out JFK, the anti-anti-communists in the Democratic Party completed their takeover of the party; snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Vietnam; nominated and elected a bemoaner of our "inordinate fear of communism"; appeased communists in Nicaragua; and, publicly and surreptitiously aided and abetted the Soviet-desired nuclear freeze and opposition to intermediate missiles in Europe.
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Thornton," Steinmeyer explains, "had sent the message to himself, from Cripple Creek to Colorado Springs," where he surreptitiously lopped off the telltale portion before handing it over to the policeman.
Jim Steinmeyer's "The Last Greatest Magician in the World"
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And so she was committed -- the more helplessly for her dense misintelligence of both sides of the question -- to the policy of conciliating the opposing influences which had so uncomfortably chosen to fight out their case on the field of her poor little existence: theoretically siding with her husband, but surreptitiously, as he well knew, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, who were really defending her own cause.
The Fruit of the Tree
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When somebody surreptitiously opened the canal - and local police refused to make arrests - federal marshals were called in.
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She surreptitiously sneaks a bite of food.
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Third, hypoxia can be induced surreptitiously, obviating behavioral responses at the time where critical measurements are made.
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On the wharves was the smell of tarred seams and cordage, -- sweltering in the sun; in the counting-rooms the clerks could barely keep the drops of moisture from their faces from falling down to blot their toilsome lines of figures on the faultless pages of the ledgers; on the Common, common men surreptitiously stretched themselves in shady corners on the grass, regardless of the police, until they should be found and ordered off; little babies in second-rate boarding-houses, where their fathers and mothers had to stay for cheapness the summer through wailed the helpless, pitiful cry of a slowly murdered infancy; and out on the blazing thoroughfares where business had to be busy, strong men were dropping down, and reporters were hovering about upon the skirts of little crowds, gathering their items; making
The Other Girls
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This data is then surreptitiously transmitted to crooks, allowing their young accomplices to later empty bank accounts.
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Ally surreptitiously guzzles water at every chance to avoid the dreaded dry mouth kiss.
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An electrician surreptitiously hooks up our hero to the main power supply.
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'My dear young lady, it is well known that your christening was the work of your aunt, who did it unknown to your parents when she had you in her power, out of pure obstinacy to a church with which she was not in sympathy, taking you surreptitiously, and indefensibly, to the font of the Establishment; so that the rite meant and could mean nothing at all ....
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
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In fact, she swears that she saw the blow-up bra being surreptitiously inflated after a recent dive in a boat full of blokes.
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Surreptitiously wiping my eyes and swallowing the sobs in my throat, I held out the baby to its mother and began to say a halting "adieu" to all of them.
Over Paradise Ridge A Romance
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She surreptitiously wiped the tears from her cheeks before she gave up and allowed herself to be viewed.
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While they spoke, he surreptitiously dropped it into the Aare River.
Euclid’s Window
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Attempts were made to surreptitiously dispose of the corpse, and some evidence was destroyed - but the body was eventually autopsied, and the death labelled a homicide.
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One might, at a stretch, imagine that one of the characters has surreptitiously pocketed it, or that someone has snuck in and across the large empty space of the platform to steal it, staying out of shot at all times; neither of these fancies is remotely plausible however.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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Crimeware can surreptitiously install keystroke loggers to collect sensitive data login and password information for online bank accounts, and report them back to the thief.
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He had a long lens and he was surreptitiously looking round the corner into the cemetery and taking sneaky shots.
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A keylogger is a form of malware program that installs itself surreptitiously, records keystrokes made on the infected computer and sends this data to hackers.
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British dystopian Watkins prophesizes in his film that protestors and lefties are arrested, tried, and surreptitiously executed in the desert.
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By the time our desserts arrive, people are glancing surreptitiously at their watches.
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These new brand ambassadors are almost the perfect instruments for surreptitiously sparking and cultivating a groundswell of desire within desired target markets.
P2pnet World Headlines – May 26, 2009
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He also, however, surreptitiously programs them to respond to a command word, which will be later used in post-hypnotic suggestion to turn C.W. into unwitting jewel thieves.
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Under these conditions, inspired gas concentrations can be manipulated to effect surreptitiously desired changes in alveolar gas tensions.
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I would have thought the ability to become invisible could only underline the traditional strategy of surreptitiously helping yourself to extra Monopoly money.
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My father propagated native plants in 1946 and 47, puffing seeds in the oven and pouring boiling water over them, then he'd surreptitiously go back and plant these plants as a means of reafforesting the hillside.
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He hurried surreptitiously through the most distant outskirts of the town, and did not stop till they had reached a little martyry some six miles beyond it.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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In a world such as this, it would be all so evident, the extent to which markets have been surreptitiously rigged already.
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Still, she didn't feel as bonhomous as she knew she ought at an anniversary party, and as the guests of honour took an overlarge knife in their clasped hands and began to assail a cake whose icing was decorated with roses, ivy, twined hearts and the words Happy Twenty-fifth, Malcolm and Frances, Barbara surreptitiously stole glances round the crowd to see if anyone besides herself was giving more attention to his wristwatch than to the waning moments of the celebration.
A Traitor to Memory
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Is that why all those male journalists in the audience were gulping and surreptitiously recrossing their legs?
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Most of us, he claims, do it surreptitiously at our desks, although some retire to their cars or, if they're really desperate for a bit of shut-eye, the toilet cubicle.
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Mugs of tea surreptitiously laced with whiskey were handed around while biscuits, cakes and bracks, compliments of O'Hara's of Foxford, were as plentiful as confetti at a wedding.
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Ah Chen, sitting in the corner, was smiling surreptitiously behind her hand.
