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81Deception — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deception >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deception deception Sgm: N 1 falseness falseness &c. 544 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm: N 1 imposition imposition imposture Sgm: N 1 fraud …
82sly — adjective (slyer, slyest) 1》 having a cunning and deceitful nature. 2》 (of a remark, glance, or expression) insinuating. 3》 (of an action) surreptitious. Phrases on the sly in a surreptitious fashion. Derivatives slyly (also slily) adverb slyness …
83stealth — [[t]stɛlθ[/t]] n. 1) secret or surreptitious procedure or passage 2) Obs. a) an act of stealing; theft b) the thing stolen; booty 3) cvb surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged: a stealth hiring of the competitor s CEO; the stealth issue… …
84steal — [c]/stil / (say steel) verb (stole, stolen, stealing) –verb (t) 1. to take or take away dishonestly or wrongfully, especially secretly. 2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgement. 3. to take, get, or win by… …
85ὑπονόσφιον — ὑπονόσφιος surreptitious masc/fem acc sg ὑπονόσφιος surreptitious neut nom/voc/acc sg …
86rapture — [17] Rapture is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin rapere ‘seize by force’. Its past participle was raptus (source of English rapt [14]), which formed the basis of the medieval Latin noun raptūra ‘seizure’,… …
87secret — [sē′krit] adj. [OFr < L secretus, pp. of secernere, to set apart < se , apart (see SECEDE) + cernere, to sift, distinguish: see HARVEST] 1. kept from public knowledge or from the knowledge of a certain person or persons 2. withdrawn, remote …
88cloak-and-dagger — adjective conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods clandestine intelligence operations cloak and dagger activities behind enemy lines hole and corner intrigue secret missions a secret agent secret sales of arms surreptitious… …
89hole-and-corner — adjective 1. relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life a hole and corner life in some obscure community H.G.Wells • Syn: ↑hole in corner • Similar to: ↑insignificant, ↑unimportant 2. conducted with or marked by hidden aims or… …
90sneakily — adverb in a surreptitious manner he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby • Syn: ↑surreptitiously • Derived from adjective: ↑sneaky, ↑surreptitious (for: ↑surreptitiously) …
