(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.
Surreptitious
Definition:
(a.) Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new approach is presented to the refractive procedure by adding observation, both surreptitious and direct, as an adjunct, an aid and a supplement to differential diagnosis in a refractive examination and in visual analysis.
(2) Aberrantly low plasma levels are more likely due to surreptitious noncompliance or drug interactions with enzyme inducers such as carbamazepine.
(3) A history of episodic edema and hypokalemia, often attributed in women to surreptitious diuretic abuse, requires a careful search for hypercorticism even in the absence of clinical Cushing's syndrome.
(4) Part of that must be down to the way the language of welfare reform is surreptitiously laced with innuendo about scroungers and skivers.
(5) Controls were compared to Ss receiving 2 deepening techniques or 2 suggestions for positive and negative hallucinations that were surreptitiously enhanced.
(6) It soon emerged that the City Planning Commission had already, surreptitiously, designated the area as blighted.
(7) In 2008, Weatherup gave evidence at the trial of Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan, two men jailed for surreptitiously recording then blackmailing a royal family member over gay sex claims and drug-taking.
(8) When she remained anticoagulated during a 2-month period off of warfarin a plasma analysis detected warfarin indicating she was taking the anticoagulant surreptitiously.
(9) Menezes supported pacification, but said that the drug trade for which Alemão was notorious continues surreptitiously: "It doesn't stop.
(10) In the third and fourth experiments, subjects were led to believe that only on stimulus type would occur but were surreptitiously shown another type on a small number of trials.
(11) Surreptitious self-administration of insulin is an important cause of hypoglycemia.
(12) The present study attempted to assess the effectiveness of commonly used deepening techniques and of surreptitiously provided stimulation on hypnotizability scores, in-hypnosis depth reports, retrospective realness ratings, and the Field Inventory of Hypnotic Depth (Field, 1965).
(13) The longer she remains on the throne, the greater her standing on the world stage and the greater the respect for her – and, therefore, the greater her potential surreptitious influence.
(14) The usefulness of assays for the rapid identification and determination of quantitative plasma levels of warfarin sodium and dicumarol is documented by the case histories of five patients: a man who accidentally took dicumarol for several weeks and developed an acute condition within the abdomen, a man who ingested 500 mg of warfarin sodium in a suicide attempt, a malingering nurse who surreptitiously took dicumarol, a nurse with warfarin intoxication who did not follow dosage prescription because of fear of developing thrombosis, and a woman with calf vein thrombosis who did not ingest the administered warfin sodium becausing of fear of developing bleeding.
(15) Tanni Grey-Thompson was Britain's first disabled sports superstar, but she has become, almost surreptitiously, one of Britain's most high-profile disability rights activists.
(16) Surreptitious diuretic use was found in a patient with longstanding hypokalaemia thought to be due to Bartter's syndrome.
(17) Gary, drunk on surreptitious martinis, dripping blood from his hand which he has cut while trying to trim a hedge, furious with his wife for her insistence that he is "clinically depressed" (and because she has confided in their sons that this is the case), has sneaked to the kitchen liquor cabinet.
(18) A case of surreptitious ingestion of oral anticoagulants is presented.
(19) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
(20) Scahill, one of the founders of the Intercept , also last week revealed documents leaked by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden showing the CIA’s years-long effort to break encryption on Apple mobile devices like iPads and iPhones and a related effort by Britain’s GCHQ to surreptitiously retrieve communications data from them.