stealthily

adverb

Definition of stealthilynext
as in surreptitiously

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Recent Examples of stealthily These two are almost too good at stealthily murdering soldiers in the dead of night. — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026 Ever since Air France rolled out its new La Première service in 2025, the French flag carrier has stealthily risen to the top of the First Class food chain. — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2026 There had been small tweaks season to season as the series traveled to different locations — all of them telegraphed in the start-of-production slate photos that stealthily revealed the new logo (including the Season 4 one). — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 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 From there, the group could stealthily disperse the new strain through air-handling systems at major livestock farms across the United States. — Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 World Liberty is celebrating the major milestone, while critics worry this is a new wrinkle on the classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse that will give corporations and foreign actors a new way to stealthily curry favor with the White House. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026 ClickFix works by tricking you into performing an action on your computer that stealthily downloads and installs malware. — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stealthily
  1. surreptitiously
  2. furtively
  3. sneakily
  4. secretively
  5. covertly
  6. clandestinely
  7. underground
Adverb
  • The centerpiece of the government’s case is that the defendants surreptitiously drugged women.
    — Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
  • For years, scammers would surreptitiously install skimming devices on card readers at ATMs, gas pumps and corner stores.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of surreptitiously
Adverb
  • There are cities where rats are glimpsed at night, furtively scurrying into a dark corner or among the train tracks.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of furtively
Adverb
  • It’s designed to sneakily sabotage your property rights and your ability to receive public services.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Today, the 31-year-old is sneakily skilled in ways beyond classical picking or noisy shredding.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of sneakily
Adverb
  • And the regime has trustees in many surrounding nations who secretively conduct transactions for the regime in the form of US dollars, cryptocurrency or other means to avoid detection, according to Brown.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of secretively
Adverb
  • The story follows Max, whose father worked covertly as Red Bird.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Panahi often produces his work covertly, incorporating his legal restrictions into his technique and plots.
    — J. Kim Murphy, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of covertly
Adverb
  • In 1983, Baker and Casey became embroiled in a public dispute over who had clandestinely obtained Jimmy Carter’s briefing book for the 1980 Presidential debate.
    — Bob Woodward, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of clandestinely
Adverb
  • Uncertainty about whether clinics are truly closing, or just moving underground, might mean fewer patients being drawn in and potentially taken advantage of.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Underwater robots to probe China’s maritime past Some of the most valuable archaeological discoveries are not buried underground but beneath the sea.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of underground

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