How to Use surreptitious in a Sentence

surreptitious

adjective

• She had a surreptitious relationship with her employee.
• Sure enough, with a surreptitious push of a button, a black-and-white cow had jumped out on the rail.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• But most of the time there was no surreptitious upper hand to be gained.
  — Sophie Madeline Dess, The New Republic, 24 June 2020
• The first mention of the surreptitious recordings came on Sept. 19.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2022
• Not just the obvious ones like breads and pastas, but the surreptitious ones, too.
  — Alison Myers, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• The hardest thing to replicate, for any novice, will be the surreptitious ease with which, in the latest film, Soderbergh shifts gear.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
• The office has no public waiting room, so there’s no risk of the surreptitious camera-phone shot.
  — Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• Brian found someone who lived about 80 miles away and met the person late at night for a surreptitious handover.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• Among the episodes that emerge is the Grand Havana Room meeting, along with the persistent, surreptitious effort to bring the Mariupol plan to life.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Even more troubling, what could hackers find out about you with full, surreptitious access to your phone?
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2016
• Given Stanton's high profile as the All-Star Game's hometown hero, his exit from the game was a bit surreptitious.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2017
• She wasn’t bothered by the surreptitious phone-cleaning.
  — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• The surreptitious action is done, in part, to spare the wealthy Persian Gulf kingdom embarrassment, the bureau said.
  — oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2020
• Cookie and King’s surreptitious milking of the cow can barely be called a crime, yet the Chief Factor’s status forbids it; the cow and her milk are his property.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2020
• At this point in time, experts said there's little reason to fear surreptitious tracking — at least not from a microchip.
  — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2020
• Historian Michael Beschloss notes that this was supposed to be the end of surreptitious recording.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 May 2017
• At any rate, there were other, more surreptitious ways to get under a quarterback's skin.
  — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 25 May 2017
• Not one to take no for an answer, Burbank tried some surreptitious application of ketchup on his hot dog.
  — CBS News, 1 July 2018
• Apple has long built in protections against surreptitious use of AirTags.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• I’ve called on @Apple & @Google to remove TikTok from their app stores for its pattern of surreptitious data practices.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 29 June 2022
• Meanwhile China has attempted to surveil parts of the U.S. with its own surreptitious methods.
  — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 9 July 2024
• Deep in the center of the rosebush and hidden from plain view, pests and disease can get a surreptitious foothold that can end up being very challenging to your entire rose garden.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2022
• Among them is one verity that sets the company’s surreptitious nature at the center of its culture.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2022
• Perlmutter has filed a cross-complaint over the surreptitious collection of his DNA.
  — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2017
• The minor victims allegedly depicted in the surreptitious recordings were seven, nine, 11 and 14 years old at the time.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• About 15 videos of surreptitious recordings were found in Kocak's phone, according to the documents.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
• After her interview, Tate took the elevator down to the lobby, where a man pushing a mop did a double take and then snuck a quick, surreptitious picture of her.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2016
• In time, perhaps, the surreptitious payments Adidas is alleged to have arranged may be allowed in broad daylight.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 11 May 2018
• Impress him with my discretion, my knowledge of the surreptitious.
  — Katherine Dunn, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• Jason Romo, 22, faces four felony charges of surreptitious recording after a witness found a phone hidden inside a box in the women's restroom where Romo worked, according to the police report.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024