furtive

  • (s) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
    • a furtive manner
    • a sneak attack
    • stealthy footsteps
    • a surreptitious glance at his watch
    sneak, stealthy, surreptitious, sneaky,
  • (s) secret and sly or sordid
    • backstairs gossip
    • "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard
    • backstairs intimacies
    • furtive behavior
    backstair, backstairs,

Synonyms

sneak stealthy surreptitious sneaky backstair backstairs

Words of close approximity

furtively furtiveness