Furtive
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- stealthy
- Having hidden motives.
- Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p31
- But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p31
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