(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.
Undercover
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(2) But it proved too successful – one employee became too emotionally attached to the undercover MI5 agent.
(3) Certainly the affidavit against Ferdaus paints a compelling picture of a man hellbent on waging jihad in America and eager to take the guns and explosives eventually supplied to him by the undercover FBI agents.
(4) At first, cadres worked undercover, organising clothes sales and other charitable events without stating their true affiliation.
(5) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Met commissioner, said a report revealing the undercover officers had spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence was “devastating” for Scotland Yard and “one of the worst days that I have seen as a police officer”.
(6) On Friday, the Met referred the case of another undercover officer, Jim Boyling, to the IPCC, after evidence emerged that he posed as a defendant using his false identity in another court case.
(7) Hunt was given responsibility for overseeing the News Corp bid for Sky on 21 December 2010, after the business secretary, Vince Cable, told undercover reporters he was at war with Rupert Murdoch.
(8) Ukraine and the west have repeatedly accused Russia of fuelling the five-month pro-Russian rebellion with arms, vehicles and undercover Russian troops.
(9) However if a public inquiry deems it is still necessary, I believe that the use of casual sex by undercover police may be warranted in very exceptional circumstances.
(10) The argument is always that if they shut the schools down they’ll go undercover.
(11) Brennan's comment appears unintentionally to have helped lead to disclosure of the secret at the heart of a joint U.S.-British-Saudi undercover counter-terrorism operation.
(12) The laws seek to outlaw undercover surveillance by animal rights activists inside factory farms, under threat of harsh punishment.
(13) It recommended that all radio communications taking place during undercover firearms operations should be recorded and covert armed response vehicles should be fitted with in-car data-recording systems.
(14) International aid officials admit that Russia's ostensibly humanitarian operation is particularly sensitive given the backdrop of what Ukraine claims is an undercover "hybrid" war waged by Moscow on Ukrainian territory.
(15) Finally in Britain this week the Israeli ambassador had to apologise to foreign office minister Sir Alan Duncan after an embassy official was caught on camera in an undercover sting plotting to “take down” MPs – including Sir Alan – regarded as outspoken supporters of a Palestinian state.
(16) An investigation into undercover policing by the Met, named Operation Herne, is under way.
(17) He said he was "deeply concerned" about the UK's use of undercover police officers in non-violent groups exercising their democratic rights to protest.
(18) • The undercover spies routinely formed sexual relationships with the campaigners they had been sent to spy on.
(19) Admiral Sir Trevor Soar The commander in chief of the Royal Navy fleet until March this year, Soar told the undercover reporters he knew "all the ministers" at the MoD.
(20) Given that Kennedy was, until recently, willing to assist the defence, one has to ask if the police were facing up to the possibility their undercover agent had turned native."