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Definition of Covertly
1. Adverb. In a covert manner. "He did it covertly"
Definition of Covertly
1. adv. Secretly; in private; insidiously.
Definition of Covertly
1. Adverb. In a covert manner, secretly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Covertly
1. secretly [adv] - See also: secretly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Covertly
Literary usage of Covertly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"5 Company not liable for merchandise which passenger carries covertly. 2. And it
makes no difference that the passenger hag no proper baggage. 3. ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... speaks of ranters, whose object was The stage curtains be artificially drawn,
and so covertly shrouded, that the squint-eyed groundling may not peep in. ..."
3. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1897)
"... ball-room—Young America covertly enjoys an evening with the grisettes of New
York—The attempt to inaugurate monthly balls at the City Hotel defeated by ..."
4. The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (1768)
"... which we often get a habit of doing fo covertly that we are not aware of the
fraud ... covertly ..."
5. The Elements of the Art of Packing as Applied to Special Juries by Jeremy Bentham (1821)
"Star-chamber preferable to a covertly-pensioned Jury. TO a mixt tribunal containing,
along with the Judge, a Jury thus constituted, and thus directed, ..."
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