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From surreptitious + -ly.
surreptitiously (comparative more surreptitiously, superlative most surreptitiously)
- In a surreptitious manner; stealthily, furtively, secretly.
- Synonyms: furtively, secretly, stealthily
1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
in a surreptitious manner
- Azerbaijani: gizli (az)
- Bulgarian: скришом (bg) (skrišom), крадешком (bg) (kradeškom)
- Catalan: subreptíciament (ca), d'amagat (ca), d'amagatotis (ca), celadament (ca), furtivament (ca), amagadament (ca)
- Czech: tajně (cs), skrytě, potají (cs)
- Danish: hemmeligt
- Dutch: clandestien (nl), heimelijk (nl)
- Finnish: vaivihkaa (fi), salaa (fi)
- French: subrepticement (fr), furtivement (fr)
- German: heimlich (de)
- Irish: gan fhios
- Italian: furtivamente (it), di nascosto
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bi dizîkî, bi nehînî, bi razberî
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: i smug, i skjul, i løyndom
- Persian: محرمانه (fa) (mahramāne)
- Portuguese: sub-repticiamente (pt), furtivamente (pt), disfarçadamente
- Romanian: pe ascuns, pe furiș
- Russian: тайко́м (ru) (tajkóm)
- Serbo-Croatian: potajice (sh)
- Somali: sir
- Spanish: subrepticiamente (es), a hurtadillas, callando (es), callandito
- Swedish: i smyg (sv)
- Turkish: gizli (tr), gizlice (tr), el altından (tr)
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