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furtive
Synonyms and Antonyms of furtive
- a furtive guy who always seems to be up to something
artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, wily
close, closemouthed, reticent, secretive
deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, devious, duplicitous, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded
cheating, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, knavish, two-faced
- We gave each other furtive glances as we watched our friend open the booby-trapped soda.
Synonym Discussion of furtive
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- met at a secret location
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- covert intelligence operations
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- the stealthy step of a burglar
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- lovers exchanging furtive glances
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- a clandestine meeting of conspirators
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- the surreptitious stockpiling of weapons
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- an underhanded trick
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