How to Use surreptitious in a Sentence

surreptitious

adjective

• She had a surreptitious relationship with her employee.
• Sure enough, with a surreptitious push of a button, a black-and-white cow had jumped out on the rail.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• But most of the time there was no surreptitious upper hand to be gained.
  — Sophie Madeline Dess, The New Republic, 24 June 2020
• The first mention of the surreptitious recordings came on Sept. 19.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2022
• Not just the obvious ones like breads and pastas, but the surreptitious ones, too.
  — Alison Myers, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• The hardest thing to replicate, for any novice, will be the surreptitious ease with which, in the latest film, Soderbergh shifts gear.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
• The office has no public waiting room, so there’s no risk of the surreptitious camera-phone shot.
  — Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• Brian found someone who lived about 80 miles away and met the person late at night for a surreptitious handover.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• Among the episodes that emerge is the Grand Havana Room meeting, along with the persistent, surreptitious effort to bring the Mariupol plan to life.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Even more troubling, what could hackers find out about you with full, surreptitious access to your phone?
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2016
• Given Stanton's high profile as the All-Star Game's hometown hero, his exit from the game was a bit surreptitious.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2017
• She wasn’t bothered by the surreptitious phone-cleaning.
  — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• The surreptitious action is done, in part, to spare the wealthy Persian Gulf kingdom embarrassment, the bureau said.
  — oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2020
• Cookie and King’s surreptitious milking of the cow can barely be called a crime, yet the Chief Factor’s status forbids it; the cow and her milk are his property.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2020
• At this point in time, experts said there's little reason to fear surreptitious tracking — at least not from a microchip.
  — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2020
• Historian Michael Beschloss notes that this was supposed to be the end of surreptitious recording.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 May 2017
• At any rate, there were other, more surreptitious ways to get under a quarterback's skin.
  — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 25 May 2017
• Not one to take no for an answer, Burbank tried some surreptitious application of ketchup on his hot dog.
  — CBS News, 1 July 2018
• Apple has long built in protections against surreptitious use of AirTags.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• I’ve called on @Apple & @Google to remove TikTok from their app stores for its pattern of surreptitious data practices.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 29 June 2022
• Deep in the center of the rosebush and hidden from plain view, pests and disease can get a surreptitious foothold that can end up being very challenging to your entire rose garden.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2022
• Among them is one verity that sets the company’s surreptitious nature at the center of its culture.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2022
• Perlmutter has filed a cross-complaint over the surreptitious collection of his DNA.
  — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2017
• About 15 videos of surreptitious recordings were found in Kocak's phone, according to the documents.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
• After her interview, Tate took the elevator down to the lobby, where a man pushing a mop did a double take and then snuck a quick, surreptitious picture of her.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2016
• In time, perhaps, the surreptitious payments Adidas is alleged to have arranged may be allowed in broad daylight.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 11 May 2018
• Impress him with my discretion, my knowledge of the surreptitious.
  — Katherine Dunn, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• Christina went through all of that trouble to gain surreptitious access to the house because it was initially owned by a man named Horatio Winthrop.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• Kemp needled Cagle over the surreptitious recording that surfaced last month.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 16 July 2018
• The defense asked Rugh to dismiss the case or remove prosecutors because of the surreptitious effort to track defense emails without court approval in an effort to find the source of news leaks.
  — CBS News, 4 June 2019

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