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Significados de furtiveness em inglês

A disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously.

Uso de furtiveness em inglês
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There was scurrying and there was furtiveness, and suddenly I saw flames.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
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About him was a furtiveness of the wilds, not guilty but protective.
The Return of Blue Pete
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They had the furtiveness of wild dogs and looked half starved themselves.
Forge of Darkness
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The Queen looked at her husband with shrewd and kindly furtiveness.
King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
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Perhaps a kind of public surreptitiousness, a quite open furtiveness, had troubled him.
Here are Ladies
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He saw in this only the essential furtiveness, inconsistency, and superstition of the female.
The Precipice: A Novel
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There was an odd furtiveness in her bearing that struck Dinah on the instant.
Greatheart
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He was unshaven, and his eyes shone with the furtiveness of some hunted animal.
The Lighted Way
9
The Jews before them were casualties of starvation and had the furtiveness of hunted animals.
The Irish Times
10
His actions were so strange; they hinted at furtiveness.
Six Feet Four
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He regarded Lilly with a furtiveness prompted solely by a desire not to appear audacious.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
12
When he left her her once clear, careless glance had a suggestion of furtiveness in it.
Love Stories
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There was furtiveness in every gesture and expression.
Four Weird Tales
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The others smiled with varying degrees of furtiveness.
Angel Island
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There was almost a schoolgirl's furtiveness about her.
An impartial witness: a bess crawford mystery
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There is no furtiveness about their morning drink.
The Land of Little Rain
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