Furtive

She must have heard my steps on the wood stairs, because by the time I walked through the door, she was sitting on the floor near the bed, looking at me with an expression of furtive innocence. ❋ Susan Engel (2011)

Every now and then, a sister slid grey and furtive from the side gate to hand over coins to buy not acarajé but a pink-and-white striped bag bulging with peeled chunks of sugar cane. ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)

Re-search Department at the Foreign Office, and engaged in furtive adulteries. ❋ Unknown (2003)

While the relationship was private, it can hardly be called furtive or clandestine. ❋ Morgan, Edmund S. (2008)

He bristled now, recalling their furtive trysts in the woods. ❋ Lewis, Beverly (2002)

In the light of after events, well did Slavin and Yorke recall the furtive appealing glance the hobo threw at Gully; well did they also remember certain of Kilbride's words: "There'll be quite a lot of things crop up in our minds that we'll be wondering we never thought of before." ❋ Ralph S. Kendall (N/A)

I may say that I was quite startled by his manner which I can only describe as furtive and uneasy. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1940)

If we see this kind of furtive activity in our midst, we are going to be the one pulling guns out of holsters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly sent many scrambling when he used "furtive" — meaning "done by stealth," derived from furs, the Latin word for thief — to describe how the Times Square bomber looked in surveillance footage. ❋ Andrew Flynn (2010)

Bush tortured animals when he was a child, and now he tortures human beings with the same kind of furtive, sniggering, naughty glee. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is to say that The Lake House is longer on a kind of furtive charm than on narrative logic. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He was damp with perspiration, and in his glance at Desmond there was a kind of furtive appeal for approval. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)

"What is your definition of 'furtive'?" asked James calmly. ❋ George Oliver Smith (1946)

The remains seemed to leer at her with a kind of furtive swagger, after the manner of broken bottles. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Yet a desolate and odd air of strangeness seemed to drape his unlighted house as he stood looking up in a kind of furtive communion with its windows. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)

In a kind of furtive bravado, I paced the length of the long, thronged tables. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)

They were a kind of furtive universalist; they had discovered the whole cosmos, and they kept the whole cosmos a secret. ❋ Unknown (1905)

She looked down herself, but nevertheless contrived to use her eyes as a kind of furtive electric battery in the midst of the most innocent conversation. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

Okay, I had to use my dictionary to get the definition of "furtive". ❋ Unknown (2010)

[What are those] two doing [in the bushes] [over there]? They look pretty furtive to me. ❋ Canker (2003)

❋ BLED FOR DAYS (2002)

[Furtive's] [liver] is the most [deadly] substance known to man. Really?? No. ❋ Miles Pieri (2004)

[Normie]: "Hey man do you watch [Twitch.tv]?" Sliam: "[Yeah man], but only Furtive." ❋ Ape-Nation (2018)

guy 1 ' [what the fuck you] ding you cunt?' guy 2 ' shit! what the fuck ' guy 1 ' [put it away] you dick, your a [furtive] wanker' ❋ Hank Grolok (2012)

His [weakness] is [citrus] [fruits]. ❋ Crabby McCrab-Crabberson (2005)