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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SURREPTI'TIOUSLY, adv. By stealth; without authority; fraudulently.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adv
1: in a surreptitious manner; "he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby" [syn: surreptitiously, sneakily]
Merriam Webster's
adverb see surreptitious
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Surreptitious Sur`rep*ti"tious, a. [L. surreptitius, or subreptitius, fr. surripere, subripere, to snatch away, to withdraw privily; sub- under + rapere to snatch. See Sub-, and Ravish.] Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods. -- Sur`rep*ti"tious*ly, adv.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
see surreptitious
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
ad. Fradulently, by stealth, without authority.
