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Furtively


Definition:

  • (adv.) Stealthily by theft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The judge said Tamir was given “little if any time” to respond to any commands from the officers, that his arms were not raised, and that he made no “furtive movement”.
  • (2) Turnbull later shrugged off the concern as there was nothing furtive about the deal, and noted it was reported by Australian media.
  • (3) Back then the town’s Kurdish character was furtive and suppressed.
  • (4) For the 30 years I have followed Spurs to away games – in pubs, around tube stations, on the streets around the ground and within Stamford Bridge itself, the venom, ignorance and breathtaking casualness of Chelsea fans’ references to Jews, Auschwitz, the Holocaust and foreskins, often accompanied by a hissing simulation of gas chambers, is simply shocking – not least because it goes unchallenged by police, stewards or the club itself, bar a token reference furtively hidden away in the match-day programme.
  • (5) The page name could have been better translated to "freedoms on the quiet", since the word "yavashaki" [furtive in Persian] also incorporates the word "yavash" meaning gently.
  • (6) Part-timers, meanwhile, are envied for having one foot in the playground and one in the office, but worry secretly about failing to keep up with either of them: skidding late into the school pick-up, still furtively sending emails on our phones.
  • (7) Abroad, he had perhaps been best known for his furtive motorcycle tryst with his actor lover, Julie Gayet, and his messy, public breakup with his First Lady, Valérie Trierweiler.
  • (8) Nearby, guards waited furtively at the entrance to the Islamic mourning tent for Sheikh Alman al-Shijah, blown apart last Friday by a bomb placed under his car.
  • (9) A small crowd grows larger, and furtive comments become denunciations as anger pours forth against Nkunda's National Congress for People's Defence.
  • (10) As I was talking his hand started creeping over my leg in a really furtive way.
  • (11) I had always loved writing the book: from the first furtive soundings of disaffected employees of Big Pharma in London, to forages among the industry’s white chimneys of Basel, and finally to the tribal villages of Kenya, where young mothers who could barely read were being bamboozled into signing “consent forms” that made guinea pigs of their own children.
  • (12) He said French troops had come up against "furtive firing" and had briefly fired back, but he said these exchanges had now stopped.
  • (13) The total number present on the island has been extremely difficult to determine due to the rugged terrain and the furtiveness of the monkeys.
  • (14) In his documentation of this furtive Islam , Degiorgis has also highlighted the ways in which a community under siege becomes resilient and collectively defiant in the face of creeping oppression.
  • (15) A politically feeble Japan, that once imperial Asian power, shelters furtively behind its US-made anti-missile batteries.
  • (16) By 1971, about 100 deserters were living furtively in a district of Saigon nicknamed "Soul Alley", beside Tan Son Nhut airport.
  • (17) All the druidic mumbo-jumbo about the Elevating Principle and the Straight Line reminds me of stuff I furtively read in my father's books on freemasonry.
  • (18) And given that the net effectively lowered what one might call the "shame threshold" (instead of having to sneak furtively into a "specialist" shop, punters could view from the comfort and privacy of their own homes), the internet undoubtedly expanded the market for commercial porn.
  • (19) Though he often shrank snail-like into stay-at-home furtiveness, the town that made him - Salem, Massachusetts - (as any visitor can still see) faces the dark, windy ocean, and it was this Hawthorne would stare at when he worked in its Custom House from 1846-49.
  • (20) When they do, it is in a slightly furtive way, almost in whispers.

Slink


Definition:

  • (a.) To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.
  • (a.) To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.
  • (v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf.
  • (a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf.
  • (a.) Thin; lean.
  • (n.) The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.
  • (n.) A thievish fellow; a sneak.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clinical symptoms were slinking between the 50th and 57th day of pregnancy and six-week serosanguinolent discharge or greenish gray mucoid discharge after the abortion and extensive hemorrhages and edemata under the skin of the aborted fetuses.
  • (2) I think the Australian public give you great credit for actually putting your money where your mouth is and not slinking away from the camp in the middle of the night hoping you won’t have to fight the battle.” Asked whether he was prepared to give ground on the funding cut, Pyne said: “I’m always prepared to talk about negotiation, always prepared to negotiate – whether it’s with Universities Australia, whether it’s with the crossbenchers.
  • (3) Maybe it’s a lack of confidence or having more doubts than normal, but the players have quality and need to bring more.” Sadio Mané scored a hat-trick in record time in the May victory and the winger created Southampton’s first chance here in the first minute, slinking past Leandro Bacuna before pulling a pass back to Dusan Tadic, who shot over from 12 yards.
  • (4) Female staff in pencil skirts slink past, clipboards in hand.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Victoria Beckham slinks away to applause from the audience.
  • (6) The owner’s sons would just slink off to their cabins leaving a few random women dotted around the yacht.
  • (7) Movie monsters have been steadily slinking back to the B-list depths from whence they came, hence the popularity of CGI splatter such as Sharknado , where we can be sure no real animals were harmed, because it’s clear none were used.
  • (8) Approaching Istanbul, 435 days after slinking into the sea in Gibraltar, the pair found the city’s tendrils reaching down the Thracian coast.
  • (9) But unlike the hundreds of coal plants and their noxious smokestacks being built in the country, the only danger linked to the solar panels are the snakes and scorpions that slink and scuttle between the sparse shrubs, posing a minor hazard to those who dust off the panels after dusk.
  • (10) Though I had heard a fence panel bang the previous evening as an animal vaulted over, I had failed to catch sight of the intruder slinking through the impenetrable shadow of my semi-wild garden.
  • (11) The first part is always optimistic, but about that second part he's not lying; a hypercharged Teddy Picker, from their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, merges seamlessly into the sultry carnival slink of Crying Lightning, with its dark and demonic mood swings, an example of how the band have matured into a sordid Lynchian lounge band with teeth.
  • (12) Somehow a policy slinked out – £700 for every taxpayer.
  • (13) Instead I slinked home, had a cup of tea on my own, stared out of the window and wondered – what now?
  • (14) More than six decades ago, travel writer Norman Lewis described the mutts of Mergui, a coastal city in the south, with unsparing vividness: “There are more dogs than humans; they are a slinking, evil breed, cursed with every conceivable affliction … Many were earless, partially blind and had paralysed or dislocated limbs.” For now, there is no killing – just breeding Ye Naung Thein The situation has not improved – and is arguably most acute in Yangon, the country’s rapidly developing commercial capital with a population of some five million.
  • (15) If there is anybody in the European Union who thinks that if we don’t do a deal with the European Union, if we don’t continue to work closely together, Britain will simply slink off as a wounded animal, that is not going to happen,” Hammond said.
  • (16) And it’s worth splashing out at Terra Nostra Garden Hotel at Furnas (doubles from €95) for the chance to slink out after dark for a private splash about in the bath-warm, camelia-bowered lake.
  • (17) That sense of guardedness is heightened by the constant presence of secret service agents hovering around her, and by the figure of Huma Abedin, her long-time aide, who has been constantly at her side since the White House and who slinks into an adjoining room while we are talking.
  • (18) Some governments are already slinking backward.” The defence ministers on Thursday are expected to decide on the quick establishment of small headquarters units in six countries – the three Baltic republics, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria.
  • (19) They trail 5-0 at the break in the World Cup semi-final and their players look absolutely traumatised as they slink back to the dressing room.
  • (20) On the northern edge of Cornwall , it's more "of the sea" than either of the other two; as the tide begins to move in, it slinks across the low retaining wall like net curtains slide across a hotel window.

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