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1. (adj.) furtive
taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret:
a furtive glance.
2. furtive
sly; shifty:
a furtive manner.
Etymology: (1670–80; < L fūrunculus boil, petty thief, der. of fūr thief)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious
marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
"a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"
2. (adj) backstair, backstairs, furtive
secret and sly or sordid
"backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) furtive
stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look
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Sense: secretive; avoiding attention
a furtive action/look.
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 Afrikaans: skelm |
 Arabic: خَفي، ماكِر |
 Bulgarian: потаен |
 Brazilian: furtivo |
 Czech: tajný; kradmý |
 German: verstohlen |
 Danish: fordækt |
 Greek: κρυφός |
 Spanish: furtivo |
 Estonian: salajane, varglik |
 Farsi: یواشکی |
 Finnish: vaivihkainen |
 French: furtif |
 Hebrew: גָנוּב, חָטוּף, חָשָאִי |
 Hindi: गुप्त |
 Croatian: potajan, kradomičan |
 Hungarian: titkos |
 Indonesian: diam-diam |
 Icelandic: laumulegur |
 Italian: furtivo |
 Japanese: こそこそした |
 Korean: 은밀한 |
 Lithuanian: slaptas |
 Latvian: slepens; zaglīgs |
 Malay: senyap-senyap |
 Dutch: heimelijk |
 Norwegian: hemmelighetsfull, stjålen |
 Polish: ukradkowy, potajemny |
 Persian: یواشکی |
 Pashto: پټ، په غلا |
 Portuguese: furtivo |
 Romanian: (pe) furiş |
 Russian: незаметный |
 Slovak: tajný; kradmý, nezbadaný |
 Slovenian: skriven, bežen |
 Serbian: potajni |
 Swedish: förstulen |
 Thai: ซึ่งลับ ๆ ล่อ ๆ |
 Turkish: kaçamak, hırsızlama |
 Taiwanese: 偷偷摸摸的，鬼鬼祟祟的 |
 Ukrainian: таємний |
 Urdu: چپکے چپکے |
 Vietnamese: ngấm ngầm, trộm |
 Chinese: 偷偷摸摸的，鬼鬼祟祟的 |
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