(n.) The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.
(n.) That which is concealed; a secret.
(n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
(n.) The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(2) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(3) The secrecy worries me if those decisions are being made without giving us the ability to hold them to account,” says Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff.
(4) National newspapers and the BBC have joined forces to oppose Hague's secrecy application and on Friday expressed their dismay at the ruling.
(5) Such is the secrecy around the plot – centred on an Alpine town where the dead come back to life – that not even the cast have been told about the new series, which is due to begin filming early next year.
(6) The government has won a High Court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
(7) The company was “owned” by four bearer shareholders, which gave it an extra degree of secrecy.
(8) Secrecy was encouraged and bribery, threats, and peer pressure used to induce participation in sexual activities.
(9) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
(10) It's believed to be the first time an appeals court delayed an execution based on the issue of drug secrecy.
(11) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(12) They've all had the courthouse doors slammed shut in the faces by courts that have accepted the US government's claims that its own secrecy powers and immunity rights bar any such justice.
(13) Their secrecy and diminished footprint make them harder than conventional wars to oppose and hold to account – though the backlash in countries bearing the brunt is bound to grow.
(14) These efforts don't solve the problem of government surveillance and secrecy.
(15) The engineer said he was concerned that the nuclear industry and local political system had a reputation for considerable secrecy that would not make it easy to discern what had gone wrong.
(16) The practice of HIV-tests for exclusion purpose promotes a tendency to secrecy, which is unfavourable to the social and medical control of the epidemic, especially because medical secret relatively to insurances is insufficient.
(17) "What the Guardian is highlighting is the vital role of secrecy in offshore abuse.
(18) Speaking on his LBC 97.3 radio show, Clegg said he strongly supported the need for secrecy by the intelligence agencies but there needed to be proper accountability as current regulation was quite opaque.
(19) In effect, we need all leaders to move health and social care organisations from fragmentation to integration; from tribes to interdisciplinary and inter-organisational teams; from internal focus to external focus; from domination and control to enabling collaboration; from secrecy to transparency; and from conflict and conflict avoidance to working through.
(20) • Apple has been able to draw a secrecy veil over its Irish operations by making extensive use of unlimited companies, which are not required to file company accounts.
Stealthy
Definition:
(superl.) Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Worried that the song was too short, Gabler asked pianist Sonny White to improvise a suitably stealthy introduction.
(2) Having experienced a hands-on session with Hitman: Absolution at a pre-E3 event around a month ago, I'm pleased to say that it's retained all the slow, stealthy, hiding-in-a-cupboard-until-you-kill-someone gameplay of the previous titles.
(3) But there may be a stealthy way to play the gender card.
(4) 63 min: After more incisive work by Robinho, Luis Fabiano misdirects Jun Il with a stealthy touch ... and then hammers the ball high and wide from 10 yards.
(5) Trump has criticized the Pentagon’s top acquisition priority, a hugely expensive and advanced, stealthy, multipurpose combat jet that three US military services and key US allies, including the UK, are purchasing.
(6) But as negotiators tussle, in this trade deal and in every other, the sharpest of eyes need to be on the lookout for the stealthy influence of big tobacco.
(7) Economic ministers have previously said the government must address bracket creep because it was a stealthy “inflation tax” that would detract from economic growth and workforce participation.
(8) This may not be a slow and stealthy change, but an immediate and radical explosion.
(9) What had been invisible to Sheikh and other residents of Barawe was the stealthy advance of navy Seal team six – the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan – in a speedboat towards the Somalian coastline before first light.
(10) Alinejad told the Guardian she had been bombarded with messages and pictures since launching Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women .
(11) Outrage within the Democratic party over the stealthy manoeuvre has tarnished Renzi’s image and he was forced to backtrack.
(12) There are conflicting reports of how Ikrima survived Saturday's stealthy assault on Barawe by the same US navy Seal unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
(13) Cocks crow and partridges strut through nearby fields, food for stealthy farm cats.
(14) The good-looking, fork-tongued incomer is stealthy and ambiguous.
(15) Even in the recent snow and ice I stayed upright, although less by stealthy cat-like grace than by steadfastly refusing to leave my house.
(16) This case showed a possible threat of 'stealthy' and migrating foreign bodies, such as very fine acupuncture needles.
(17) And when Obama went to this kind of ‘let’s move away from hard power into the more soft power and more stealthy approach’, the numbers skyrocketed.” Carofano is right that total deaths from terrorism dipped after 2007, but they rose above those levels only after the beginning of the Syrian civil war, in 2011 .
(18) This is a system that can detect adversaries at quite a phenomenal distance and is stealthy so it is very, very difficult to find,” Johnston said.
(19) Defunding of the NHS and stealthy privatisation will introduce vested financial interests that will trump clinical needs.
(20) It was a stealthy act of digital anti-promotion that would prove massively successful, relying on news sites and social media to spread the word.