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Hole-and-corner

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Conducted in secret; clandestine.

    "The Baron rather frowned on such things, thinking them injudicious at the present stage of affairs, so His Highness had to go about them in a hole and corner manner."

Adjective
  1. 1
    conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life wordnet

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