That man over there has been glancing at us furtively for a while, do you know him?
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Furtively
Synonyms for "furtively" (19 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Adverb(1 words)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (9)
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1 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 14 languages.
Azerbaijani
2 entries- gizlin adv (in a furtive manner)
- oğrun adv (in a furtive manner)
Catalan
1 entries- furtivament adv (in a furtive manner)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 偷偷 adv (in a furtive manner)
Czech
3 entries- kradmo adv (in a furtive manner)
- nenápadně adv (in a furtive manner)
- skrytě adv (in a furtive manner)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝtele adv (in a furtive manner)
Finnish
2 entries- vaivihkaa adv (in a furtive manner)
- vaivihkaisesti adv (in a furtive manner)
French
2 entries- furtivement adv (in a furtive manner)
- subrepticement adv (in a furtive manner)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌱𐌾𐍉 adv (in a furtive manner)
Japanese
1 entries- ひそかに adv (in a furtive manner)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- bi dizîkî adv (in a furtive manner)
- bi nehînî adv (in a furtive manner)
- bi razberî adv (in a furtive manner)
Polish
4 entries- chyłkiem adv (in a furtive manner)
- cichaczem adv (in a furtive manner)
- potajemnie adv (in a furtive manner)
- skrycie adv (in a furtive manner)
Russian
4 entries- скры́тно adv (in a furtive manner)
- та́йно adv (in a furtive manner)
- тайко́м adv (in a furtive manner)
- укра́дкой adv (in a furtive manner)
Sanskrit
1 entries- सनुतर् adv (in a furtive manner)
Spanish
3 entries- a furto adv (in a furtive manner)
- a hurtadillas adv (in a furtive manner)
- furtivamente adv (in a furtive manner)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
She was deadly pale and breathing fast, glancing furtively towards the bed as she fastened her mantle, to see if she had disturbed me.
Source: tatoeba (6976249)
Tom glanced furtively at Mary.
Source: tatoeba (9135535)
Tom looked around furtively.
Source: tatoeba (9486057)
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