covertly

comparative more covertly · superlative most covertly

1. In a covert manner, secretly.

   Only a little removed from the predatory oafdom of male adolescence, he is suspicious of Christian and covertly protective of Cher's person and future.

   1999, Barbara Tepa Lupack, Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies, page 123

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   Shimon’s interestingly stereotypical role as a conformist, but in reality covertly resistant, dominand […] is accentuated in the second half of the story[.]

   2009, Seth Schwartz, Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?, page 134

   Over at least the past year, RT and its employees, including KOSTIANTYN KALASHNIKOV, a/k/a "Kostya," and ELENA AFANASYEVA, a/k/a "Lena," the defendants, have deployed nearly $10 million, laundered through a network of foreign shell entities, to covertly fund and direct U.S. Company-1.

   2024 September 28, “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. KOSTIANTYN KALASHNIKOV, a/k/a "Kostya," and ELENA AF ANASYEV A, a/k/a "Lena,"”, in UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, page 1