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furtive 音标拼音: [f'ɚtɪv] a. 私下的,秘密的,隐密的,偷偷摸摸的 私下的,秘密的,隐密的,偷偷摸摸的 furtive adj 1: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; " a furtive manner"; " a sneak attack"; " stealthy footsteps"; " a surreptitious glance at his watch" [ synonym: { furtive}, { sneak( a)}, { sneaky}, { stealthy}, { surreptitious}] 2: secret and sly or sordid; " backstairs gossip"; " his low backstairs cunning"- A. L. Guerard; " backstairs intimacies"; " furtive behavior" [ synonym: { backstair}, { backstairs}, { furtive}] Furtive \ Fur" tive\, a. [ L. furtivus, fr. furtum theft, fr. fur thief, akin to ferre to bear: cf. F. furtif. See { Fertile}.] Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] A hasty and furtive ceremony. -- Hallam. [ 1913 Webster] 70 Moby Thesaurus words for " furtive": artful, back- door, backstairs, calculating, chiseling, clandestine, collusive, conspiratorial, covert, covinous, crafty, cunning, deceitful, doggo, false, falsehearted, feline, finagling, foxy, fraudulent, guileful, hidden, hidden out, hidlings, hole- and- corner, hugger- mugger, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, indirect, insidious, lurking, on tiptoe, private, privy, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, quiet, scheming, secret, secretive, sharp, shifty, skulking, slinking, slinky, slippery, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealing, stealthy, surreptitious, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two- faced, under cover, under the table, under- the- counter, under- the- table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive, untrustworthy, waiting concealed, wily
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