furtive Betydning & definition

Eksempler på furtive

• The sixth volume was published, one might say, in an almost furtive way.

• Soviet films and television tend to portray love in terms of hand-holding and furtive glances.

• Sometimes sneaking up on one as snuck has snuck, language changes, and often those changes are furtive and catch us unaware.

• Corridors are places for casual meetings, for passing others with barely a glance, or for furtive, secretive, and intimate moments.

• There were lots of furtive looks in this car park.

• Here we saw forklift trucks lifting pallets straight into the back of vans with no furtive looks—it was that open.

• Nevertheless, the furtive and back-handed introduction of divisive issues under cover of these very topics is turning into a regrettable habit.

• There is something unhealthy and furtive about secret contributions to political parties in exchange for favours which may or may not be given.