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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
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.
"Until Edward Snowden revealed the matter, the US secretly surveilled its citizens for years. He remains in exile and one of the most wanted people by American law enforcement," she wrote on Facebook.
Santillan denied the charge, despite being secretly recorded by his wife saying that an ATF agent could no longer “protect” him once he retired.
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