COLLUSIVELY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

collusively

adverb

as in covertly

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Many liberals had been disciplined to adopt methods that purported to strictly confine legal interpretation, only to discover that their most prominent adherents, whether covertly or unconsciously, had other plans.

— Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026
The key difference lies in the process for converting the fissile material to be bomb usable (chemical reprocessing in the case of plutonium, rather than enrichment, which can be done covertly and in small batches).

— Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of covertly

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Soon afterward, social media commenters were speculating about whether Sierra broke into the office or was caught clandestinely shredding documents.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
This great disparity between reality and story, truth and history, takes on new dimensions when Robin clandestinely takes refuge at an island priory where Sister Brigid (Jodie Comer) tends to his wounds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026

Definition of clandestinely

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Fro-yo heads will tell you, conspiratorially, that Butterfield Market is rumored to have the same supplier as Forty Carrots, the café tucked away on the seventh floor of Bloomingdale’s which claims to have introduced frozen yogurt to New York City some fifty years ago.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
That Hanson so could faithfully and conspiratorially convey that in her naturalistic, uncontrived images came from a place of friendship.

— Mark Holgate, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025

Definition of conspiratorially

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Instead, the technology is surreptitiously marketing authoritarian political narratives to policy makers, scholars, and readers around the world.

— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
As a group of dancers surrounded her on the B-stage, she was surreptitiously harnessed into a rig that carried her aloft, limp yet belting, into the heavens, or at least into what looked like a UFO hovering over the arena.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 7 June 2026

Definition of surreptitiously

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