A disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously.
1 There was scurrying and there was furtiveness , and suddenly I saw flames.
2 About him was a furtiveness of the wilds, not guilty but protective.
3 They had the furtiveness of wild dogs and looked half starved themselves.
4 The Queen looked at her husband with shrewd and kindly furtiveness .
5 Perhaps a kind of public surreptitiousness, a quite open furtiveness , had troubled him.
6 He saw in this only the essential furtiveness , inconsistency, and superstition of the female.
7 There was an odd furtiveness in her bearing that struck Dinah on the instant.
8 He was unshaven, and his eyes shone with the furtiveness of some hunted animal.
9 The Jews before them were casualties of starvation and had the furtiveness of hunted animals.
10 His actions were so strange; they hinted at furtiveness .
11 He regarded Lilly with a furtiveness prompted solely by a desire not to appear audacious.
12 When he left her her once clear, careless glance had a suggestion of furtiveness in it.
13 There was furtiveness in every gesture and expression.
14 The others smiled with varying degrees of furtiveness .
15 There was almost a schoolgirl's furtiveness about her.
16 There is no furtiveness about their morning drink.
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