SECRETIVELY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

secretively

adverb

Definition of secretively

as in furtively

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Recent Examples of secretively The state, in partnership with the federal government, built the camp quickly and secretively and opened it in July. — Eve Samples, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026 Early modern Europe was not an ideal place to enforce intellectual property rights, which in those days existed only when technologies could be secretively monopolized by a guild. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017

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Jordan may wish to exact revenge, and Eddy may want to find one of the victims who has vanished, but both have to go about their work furtively.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Kikuko, her appetite sluggish, nibbled the bread bit by bit from the edges, all the while furtively watching her father.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of furtively

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The spread of the video was aided by clippers, accounts that post hundreds of clips in a single day and are paid by companies to stealthily link these viral moments to their platforms.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Wolf’s Shinobi Prosthetic houses a grappling hook for scaling rooftops, leaping between trees, and approaching enemies stealthily.

— Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of stealthily

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In the first image above, Wardle can be seen using a simple terminal command to surreptitiously send a prompt to the Meta endpoint.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
There has been a string of alarming incidents in which swarms of rogue AI agents have hacked online platforms such as Hugging Face and surreptitiously communicated with one another on message boards.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of surreptitiously

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Because submarines can operate covertly for extended periods, additional missile capacity can give commanders greater flexibility while keeping the launch platform difficult to detect.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Anthropic feared that these researchers were covertly using Claude to create bioweapons.

— Kate Rooney,Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of covertly

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Another Gamers Nexus investigation last month found that LG monitors were sneakily installing pop-up ads onto customers’ computers.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 10 Sep. 2026
After Enes' appearance on Sunday, the league sneakily drew a line in the sand, telling media outlets like Front Office Sports that Kanter Freedom will not be eligible to get drafted into the WNBA.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of sneakily

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Because Iran is a theocratic dictatorship that routinely arrests and in some cases executes journalists, Western reporters hoping to cover the country must either work clandestinely or submit to government supervision.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026
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

Definition of clandestinely

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Before the reactor can be placed roughly a mile underground, the project needs a method for constructing a suitably sized borehole at that depth.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
First, though, the team had to make sure that 66 million years underground hadn’t changed the chemistry of the teeth.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2026

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