(a.) Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Galli said there were already about 200,000 hospitalisations of women who have undergone a clandestine termination every year, and a suspected 1 million illegal abortions before the epidemic.
(2) A 4-methyl derivative of aminorex has recently appeared on the clandestine market as a designer drug.
(3) A series of clandestine lunches has been held by Stuart Wheeler, a former Tory donor who is now trying to persuade MPs to jump ship.
(4) Only 2 married men informed their female sex partner (regular partner) of their clandestine activity.
(5) The deep state originally meant the military, police and intelligence networks which assigned themselves the task of defending the secular Kemalist regime against both Islamists and leftists and often used clandestine means to do so.
(6) The microfilmed files obtained by the CIA – in what the Americans described as a "clandestine operation" which may have included a pay-off to a rogue KGB agent – are the key because they contain copies of the card indexes of the HVA, listing the real names of all the agents, informers and targets of the Stasi's foreign operations.
(7) We announce that there will be no differentiation between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban ,” he said, referring to the Pakistani military’s long history of clandestine support for those militant groups it believes support its own strategic objectives.
(8) Liberalization of abortion laws occurred to reduce or eliminate the disastrous effects of criminal abortions performed by unskilled people under clandestine and unsafe conditions.
(9) Ten more dead and 900 clandestine migrants ready to disembark,” Salvini said on Wednesday.
(10) Most importantly, he sat on the intelligence committee, the Senate’s sole oversight board of the clandestine agencies, where he was one of just a few dissenting members.
(11) The former Belfast IRA commander Brendan Hughes posthumously claimed in taped testimony, for the US university Boston College, that Gerry Adams gave the order for the widow to be shot dead but buried clandestinely in order to avoid any negative publicity for the republican movement.
(12) But those involved in the clandestine discussions over the past few days said there had to be secrecy, partly because Clegg had said he must talk to the Conservatives first.
(13) More alarmingly, since 2008, when a local tabloid newspaper published photographs of a clandestine gay wedding in Dakar, police have been cracking down, many homosexuals have gone into hiding or fled abroad (including to Gambia, whose president told them they should leave again within 24 hours or face decapitation), nine gay activists have been jailed after coming out, and the bodies of at least four gay men have been exhumed from their graves and dragged through the streets by jeering mobs.
(14) In surveys of poverty neighborhoods in New York City conducted in 1965 and 1967, it became apparent that clandestine abortions were more frequently reported as occurring when the woman was married and had one to three children than before marriage or after three children had already been born.
(15) Park said the ballooning would be done clandestinely, with the pace picking up in March when he expects the wind direction to become more favourable.
(16) It knew Iguala was a clandestine cemetery.” Omar Garcia, one of several Ayotzinapa students who survived the attack, said the incident had crystalised the widespread sense that political corruption was driving Mexico’s descent into violence.
(17) Infanticide remained clandestine in ages when the Church was powerful.
(18) In 2011 the army was humiliated by the unilateral US special forces raid on the lair of former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and the persistence of supposedly clandestine strikes by US drones, the advanced unmanned aircraft Washington has refused to share with Pakistan.
(19) Our meeting is not clandestine, exactly: we sit by the window to eat our open sandwiches.
(20) There were clandestine reporter meetings in Washington, Munich, and London.
Underground
Definition:
(n.) The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
(a.) Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.
(a.) Done or occurring out of sight; secret.
(adv.) Beneath the surface of the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(2) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(3) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(4) The logistics of maintaining and supplying underground clinics located in war-torn rural Afghanistan are presented.
(5) German intelligence services had also been keeping tabs on the rightwing radical scene that Zschäpe was a part of, but had lost track of her, along with Mundlos and Böhnhardt when they went underground.
(6) In the still active mine workers, dynamic spirometry results showed no difference between smokers or nonsmokers or between underground and surface workers.
(7) That said, Turin’s creative scene is quite underground, so you have to seek out the best work.
(8) During the non-heating months of June, July and August of 1974, the total and respirable dust content at an underground station of the Newark City Subway System was determined.
(9) Part of the initial work has involved London Underground strengthening the structure of Temple tube station by the Thames so the north end of the bridge could sit on top of it.
(10) This may serve evidence for the absence of a common morphofunctional underground for this process.
(11) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(12) Excess risks of lung cancer were found in both underground workers (SMR 3.41; 95% CI 1.10-7.97; based on 5 deaths) and surface workers (SMR 1.87, 95% CI 1.18-2.81; based on 23 deaths).
(13) Chest X-ray and sputum cytology were used to detect lung cancer among subjects with an underground work history over 10 years and over 40 years of age.
(14) Anyone studying the question with an open mind will almost certainly come to a similar conclusion: if we and our children are to have a reasonable chance of living stable and secure lives 30 or so years from now, according to one recent study 80% of the known coal reserves will have to stay underground , along with half the gas and a third of the oil reserves.
(15) His initial exposure to leftist ideas was via the underground hippy press which provided him "with a certain amount of scepticism".
(16) For example, if the risk estimates from underground miners' studies are, in truth, not applicable to home exposures and overestimate the gradient of risk from home exposure to radon by, for example, a factor of 2, then enormously large numbers of subjects would be required to detect the difference.
(17) He hadn't seen his children very much even before he went to prison because he was always busy running around, hiding underground.
(18) Transport for London said a planned tube drivers' strike on the London Underground service on Boxing Day is unlikely to cause serious extra disruption should it go ahead, although works are planned on many lines.
(19) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
(20) It was concluded that the study did not provide support for the hypothesis that underground coalmining increases the risk of gastric cancer.