stealthily

adverb

stealth·​i·​ly -thə̇lē 

-li

: in a stealthy manner

she looked out stealthily through the blind of the little window

—Charles Kingsley

the public schools have stealthily crept back into the hearts of the intellectuals

—Edward Shils

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