Dreye權威釋義|surreptitious

a.

祕密的；偷偷摸摸的；鬼鬼祟祟的
When no one was looking he took a surreptitious puff on his cigarette.
當沒有人看時，他偷偷地抽了一口菸。

衍生

ad.

surreptitiously

辨析

同義參見:

private underhanded underground¹

以上來源於：《英漢大辭典》

/ˌsʌrəpˈtɪʃəs/

adj.

covert or clandestine.

Derivative

surreptitiously adv.
surreptitiousness n.

Etymology

ME (in the sense ‘obtained by suppression of the truth’): from L. surreptitius (from surripere, from sub- ‘secretly’ + rapere ‘seize’) + -ous.

以上來源於：《簡明牛津英語詞典》