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Meanings of furtiveness in inglês

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

Synonyms
Examples for "stealthiness"
Examples for "stealthiness"
1
There was a stealthiness in the performance that roused him to vigilance.
A Hoosier Chronicle
2
He raised the sash with stealthy caution, wondering at his own stealthiness.
Black Jack
3
No particular keenness was required to see in these forms a sentinel-like stealthiness.
Desert Gold
4
He stooped and picked it up, a certain stealthiness apparent in his movement.
The Yellow Crayon
5
After this walking was easier, but stealthiness made their progress slow.
Graustark
1
It's not part of this 'sneakiness' in the same way necessarily.
Radio NZ
2
The sneakiness has hardened recently because nowadays many African players have Premier League experience.
The Guardian
3
My attempts at sneakiness were rendered pointless when a flock of pterodactyls flanked me.
Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
4
That was some major league sneakiness, Dame Honor.
The Short Victorious War
5
That's just another example of your sneakiness.
A Farewell to Arms
Usage of furtiveness in inglês
1
There was scurrying and there was furtiveness, and suddenly I saw flames.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
2
About him was a furtiveness of the wilds, not guilty but protective.
The Return of Blue Pete
3
They had the furtiveness of wild dogs and looked half starved themselves.
Forge of Darkness
4
The Queen looked at her husband with shrewd and kindly furtiveness.
King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
5
Perhaps a kind of public surreptitiousness, a quite open furtiveness, had troubled him.
Here are Ladies
6
He saw in this only the essential furtiveness, inconsistency, and superstition of the female.
The Precipice: A Novel
7
There was an odd furtiveness in her bearing that struck Dinah on the instant.
Greatheart
8
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
11
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
13
There was furtiveness in every gesture and expression.
Four Weird Tales
14
The others smiled with varying degrees of furtiveness.
Angel Island
15
There was almost a schoolgirl's furtiveness about her.
An impartial witness: a bess crawford mystery
16
There is no furtiveness about their morning drink.
The Land of Little Rain
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Furtiveness through the time