surreptitious

  • 21surreptitious — [15] Latin surreptītius meant ‘taken away secretly’. It was formed from the past participle of surripere ‘take away secretly’, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub ‘under’, hence ‘secretly’, and rapere ‘seize’ (source of English rape,… …

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  • 22surreptitious advertising — paslėpta reklama statusas Aprobuotas sritis elektroniniai ryšiai apibrėžtis Bet kokia forma ir bet kokiomis priemonėmis skleidžiama informacija apie gamintoją ar paslaugos teikėją, jo pavadinimą ar veiklą, prekių ženklą, pateikiama taip, kad… …

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  • 23surreptitious — adjective /ˌsɜɹ.əpˈtɪʃ.əs/ stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements) …

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  • 24surreptitious — Synonyms and related words: artful, back door, backstairs, calculating, chiseling, clandestine, collusive, concealed, covert, covinous, crafty, cunning, deceitful, doggo, FALSE, falsehearted, feline, finagling, fraudulent, furtive, guileful,… …

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  • 25surreptitious —   …

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  • 26surreptitious — sur·rep·ti·tious || ‚sÊŒrep tɪʃəs adj. secretive, clandestine, covert, stealthy …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 27surreptitious — [ˌsʌrəp tɪʃəs] adjective covert or clandestine. Derivatives surreptitiously adverb surreptitiousness noun Origin ME (in the sense obtained by suppression of the truth ): from L. surreptitius (from surripere, from sub secretly + rapere seize ) +… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 28surreptitious — a. Fraudulently introduced, foisted in, done by stealth …

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  • 29surreptitious — adj 1. clandestine, covert, undercover, stealthy, feline, nighttime, back alley, back street, CIA type, Watergate, Canon Law. subrepti tious; collusive, conspirative, conspiratory, furtive, underhand, underhanded, Inf. under the counter, backroom …

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  • 30surreptitious — sur·rep·ti·tious …

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