Secret and sly or sordid.
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Examples for "furtive "
Examples for "furtive "
1 He conceived the idea that there was something furtive in her movements.
2 The furtive quality in that quick peek sort of breaks Jack's heart.
3 The next thing you notice is the furtive look of the thief.
4 In his eyes shone the furtive , terrified light of the trapped criminal.
5 People looked furtive , and went in and out of the houses furtively.
1 We went clapping up a clean stone backstair , and then into a back passage cheerfully decorated with ragged light-green Kidderminster, and issued upon
2 And Miss Verity descended the backstairs again.
3 His reading is principally Memoirs, which I think I have heard you call 'The backstairs of history.'
4 "He wasn't groom of the backstairs to England's queen for nothing."
5 Had she been a second-hand clothes dealer, a frequenter of the backstairs of great houses, or had she been merely a courtesan?
1 I do not believe in backstairs diplomacy any more than Dr. Hollweg.
2 He would never believe it-itwas a nasty piece of backstairs gossip!
3 Medical need, rather than a backstairs political deal, should always direct health policy.
4 There is a little cad down the backstairs who does it.
5 Jewel found the backstairs and ascended them, her little heart hot within her.
6 I picked up my muddy clothes and started down the backstairs .
7 And the quieter, decenter, respectabler, innocenter a man looked-likeenough!-thedarker those backstairs !
8 Positions held long term can be backstairs bets on markets.
9 Marking their track by a running stream of water, they crept up the backstairs .
10 A backstairs way of discrediting a master before his servants.
11 Not a single event was immune from malicious backstairs comment.
12 I ran down the backstairs and out through the alley.
13 He speaks of secret communications between the executive and members, of backstairs influence, &tc..
14 Raymond van Houst-a ridiculous name!-fitonly for a backstairs romance.
15 He didn't ask his bedroom or hers...but took her up the backstairs to his bed.
16 Biggie, dressed in her turquoise jogging suit, came down the backstairs and picked it up.
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