surreptitiousness

Surreptitiousness, it seems, is only in the eye of the secretive.

There is a certain surreptitiousness to this trail riding and fishing of mine.

That movement carried with it a suggestion of surreptitiousness, as if it must be hidden from any watcher.

All this surreptitiousness was unnecessary.

She recalled past incidents, a quick switcharound when she appeared, an air of surreptitiousness, baffled half-suspicions.

Obstreperously so, Killashandra thought, for they would whisper among themselves, then burst into laughter as they looked with mock surreptitiousness at silent diners.

LIPA's plans to move forward with surcharge increases - though not approved - rekindled those accusations of surreptitiousness.

He sounded almost relieved at the prospect of setting aside Trill's long history of surreptitiousness; Dax wondered how many of his numerous lifetimes Gard had devoted to maintaining it.

With the deferential surreptitiousness that some Americans now associate with their northern neighbor, Canada in the last decade nearly doubled its oil exports and nearly tripled its natural gas exports to the United States.

The answer - which also lies outside the scope of this book - is apparently that surreptitiousness, while not essential in itself, was essential if Nixon and Kissinger were going to be able to take the credit for it.)

And surreptitiousness: in "Guitar Hanging on a Wall" (1927) he covertly acknowledges his new relationship with Marie-Therese by showing her shadowlike profile surveying their linked initials, with hers being arranged to suggest a body with open legs.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, argues that Congress has been quiescent at least partly because it approves of handling the problem through the United Nations, "without the surreptitiousness shown by the White House in many past crises."