'Surreptitiously' definitions:
Definition of 'surreptitiously'
(from WordNet)
adverb
In a surreptitious manner; "he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby" [syn: surreptitiously, sneakily]
Definition of 'Surreptitiously'
From: GCIDE
- Surreptitious \Sur`rep*ti"tious\, a. [L. surreptitius, or subreptitius, fr. surripere, subripere, to snatch away, to withdraw privily; sub- under + rapere to snatch. See Sub-, and Ravish.] Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods. -- {Sur`rep*ti"tious*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]