0 planned or done in secret, especially describing something that is not officially allowed -- （尤指从事不被官方允许的活动）秘密的，暗中的，私下的
Officially, ecclesiastical matrimony had thus replaced secular, private, and clandestine marriage.
But the clandestine nature of this connection makes it difficult to prove.
Their works were consequently banned from public exhibition and became symbols of a clandestine artistic discourse.
The clandestine nature of political corruption, for example, is a case in point.
The end of their clandestine existence and the exercise of ' going public ' helped them to re-evaluate their objectives and functional dynamics.
But the contraceptive trade was a clandestine trade and birth control was not publicly discussed in the early years of this century.
It would appear that a good many border-dwellers became involved in this clandestine trade.
This is partly a story, then, about the clandestine build-ups behind the lines.
