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secretly
[ see-krit-lee ]
adverb
- in a way that is kept from the knowledge of others or is designed to escape their notice:
He later discovered that the couple had secretly married in a discreet ceremony six months ago.
Many of the wood and stone looks you see in homes every day are secretly vinyl flooring.
Other Word Forms
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Word History and Origins
Origin of secretly1
Example Sentences
McVeigh was part of an emerging rightwing militia movement that was going after or attacking a corrupt group of people that they believed were secretly running the government from within.
The Rose Field refers to a magnetic or gravitational field, and was mentioned in the opening chapters of Northern Lights, when scholars at Lyra's Oxford college secretly discussed a mysterious phenomenon called Dust.
On social media sites, some indignant residents speculated that the acts were committed by unscrupulous developers who “wanted the trees gone” or were orchestrated secretly by the City of Los Angeles.
Yes, Miller explained, he’d been secretly seeing Ogorodnikova, but only as part of a bold, self-styled plan to infiltrate Soviet intelligence.
He was splitting his time pretending to grieve her, being secretly committed to me and dating anyone who worked it in a dress and heels.
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