SURREPTITIOUSLY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

surreptitiously

adverb

as in stealthily

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Recent Examples of surreptitiously Right now, there are no indications exploits are being used to install anything other than Monero miners, which surreptitiously harness a Mac’s resources to perform mathematical operations that generate the cryptocurrency for the attacker. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026 That's not the first time a president surreptitiously switched planes. — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 Two senior health-ministry officials, speaking anonymously, told the magazine that at least 30,000 dead (and possibly many more) was a likelier figure, and one that was corroborated by a group of first responders who collected data surreptitiously. — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 29 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 Gray-hat hackers, unlike white-hats, surreptitiously sneak into corporate systems to find security vulnerabilities. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026 Scammers can create an AI replica of someone’s voice using a short recording of their speech — often pulled from social media or an earlier scam call that was surreptitiously recorded. — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 29 May 2026 Brown raised Boyne’s bond, leading to his incarceration, after Boyne surreptitiously photographed a prosecution document in court and shared it with other sympathetic bloggers. — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026 Haslach also admitted to surreptitiously taking a photo of a minor in a swimsuit by positioning his cellphone under a classroom desk. — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 1 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for surreptitiously

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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
The pollution is expected to drift into the Bay Area, stealthily diminishing air quality without the signature campfire smell associated with wildfire smoke, according to Anthony Edwards, the San Francisco Chronicle’s newsroom meteorologist.

— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of stealthily

Adverb

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
It’s meant to blends furtively into a bookshelf or sits elegantly atop a bedside table, never inside it.

— Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of furtively

Adverb

Flitting between deadpan sorrow and impassioned romance, Bridgers’ album is alternately spooky, hilarious, mysterious and sneakily moving.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Aug. 2026
Thorbjornsen's name has been penciled in, although he's been sneakily fantastic in his short PGA Tour career.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of sneakily

Adverb

Also quite useful while breaking down cardboard boxes and covertly tossing kid art projects.

— Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 7 Aug. 2026
Israel had captured these portable systems in the October 1973 war with Egypt and Syria and covertly transferred them to the Kurds in return for equivalent American systems.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of covertly

Adverb

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

Definition of secretively

Adverb

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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