Rory tried to sneak a surreptitious glance at Adam's wristwatch.    From LearnThat.org.  [ldoceonline.com]

When he called a surreptitious meeting to try to get Emmerson.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At its core, “macroeconomic management” is invariably an exercise in surreptitious theft and fraud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Justice and Stabilization] Reference

And "surreptitious" and "plethora" overcome their negative connotations with their cascades of soft syllables.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Paean to Beautiful Words] Reference

This person who, in the intervals of her profession as midwife, carried on a kind of surreptitious practice, poohpoohed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Tales of Old Strasbourg] Reference

Kaunda has been accused of 'surreptitious' efforts to topple party leader Kebby Musokotwane, who is supported by young party members.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Alex Deane, director of Big Brother Watch, criticised the "surreptitious" installation of the chips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

So, was she (a) packing some kind of surreptitious recording device, or (b) working from memory when she wrote the article?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MetaFilter] Reference

"surreptitious" visits at night, the jury was told.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A kind of surreptitious viciousness showing in his sour smile that warned me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories] Reference

 There is surreptitious glancing at the watches as the morning goes on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference

That would dilute most surreptitious releases enough to limit casualties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mass Transit] Reference

The surreptitious pictures of the oil well were also recovered and destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference

Define these exactly: inquisitorial; lachrymose; laconic; surreptitious; contumely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

The surreptitious introduction into this country of German cigars, eau de Cologne, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

But charges and coun-tercharges about mudslinging and surreptitious phone banks continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Smooth &Amp; Mr. Rough] Reference

In an interview with NEWSWEEK, CEO Steve Berkowitz blamed Ask Jeeves's partners for the surreptitious downloads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Text: Uneasy Rider] Reference

He dived with surreptitious haste down side streets when he saw her coming, or disappeared within shop doorways.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference

Understanding everything about her became my surreptitious mission, until I realized the parallel desires of my buddies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex on Other People's Lawns] Reference

It went to the bad in its own way; and the later kinds of story in the old Northern tongue are not wholly spurious and surreptitious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

There has always been something surreptitious about the movement for European unity, a political objective shrouded in economic language.    From Wordnik.com.  [European Fudging] Reference

At his surreptitious last supper, Orlando wolfed down pork chops, rice and beans -- and then finished off the plates of guests around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stealing Home] Reference

What's more, crooks are likely to use crowbars and saws to quickly pick locks because they do not care about surreptitious entry, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locksport: Competitive Lockpicking Growing In U.S. Popularity] Reference

By popular acclaim, onions were declared illegal and (except for a few surreptitious sprouts tended by devoted onion fanatics) eradicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sad History of the Tearless Onion] Reference

Nor did she understand when Billy treated her to a slow and surreptitious wink, his freckled countenance grinning beneath the rosetted hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

"We knew before that he was playing a rotten game on us, but we didn't know that his plans included such surreptitious visits to the mine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference

Quilty, with Dolly's connivance, follows Humbert and Dolly's car, keeping in touch with her by surreptitious phone calls and furtive meetings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lolita At 50, And Forever Young] Reference

His advice to civilians forced to dine under their own unrecognizable names is to bring a spiral notebook and pretend to take surreptitious notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A FOODIE UNMASKS] Reference

Upton Sinclair's surreptitious reporting about conditions in turn-of-the-century Chicago slaughterhouses led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Media's Meaty Meal] Reference

The other, much smaller and built into a bookcase, was probably a surreptitious tabernacle in which miniaturized chalices and other priestly instruments could be hidden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Revival] Reference

The two leading cases on so-called surreptitious entry, or what have come to be known as “sneak and peek” searches, came to very similar conclusions….    From Wordnik.com.  [Using the Drug "War" to Expand Government Power] Reference