Synonym: in secret, on the Q.T., on the QT. Similar words: secret, secrete, in secret, secretive, secretary, open secret, secretariat, undersecretary. Meaning: adv. 1. in secrecy; not openly 2. not openly; inwardly.
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61 An employee secretly gave confidential memos to the press.
62 He secretly slipped into Paris under the name of Duong, and nostalgia for the city welled up in him.
63 Perhaps Reuben and Miriam were secretly not happy with the prospect of raising a family in Cork.
64 But secretly Keith feels a black man with a Filofax looks stupid.
65 I wonder if I could secretly be having a midlife crisis?
66 She rinsed the sheets secretly, after Sethe went to the restaurant and Paul D went scrounging for barges to help unload.
67 Mr Johnson secretly arranged with deputy crier David Mitchell to propose during one of his ear-splitting announcements.
68 Fleury dismissed our fears as groundless, though he was secretly alarmed.
69 In the billiard room at Mentmore, however, an economic think-tank was secretly plotting reform.
70 Secretly I've always been interested in the end of the world, the apocalyptic vision of some one like Ludwic Meidner.
71 Yet it began to be whispered secretly that he was dying.
72 Military activity was secretly taking place for weeks before the invasion.
73 We secretly organized a party for her, but then Bill messed everything up by telling her about it.
74 His clandestine meetings with PLO officials had been secretly recorded.
75 We would meet secretly and, when she knew her father was away, I was invited to her home.
76 In the event, under heavy Foreign Office pressure which she secretly resented, Mrs Thatcher gave way completely.
77 Like my country, I too have spread myself to the invader, while remaining secretly inviolable.
78 I had to abandon the stall, and went into hiding until I could arrange to leave the country secretly.
79 Rosie remained unruffled, smiling secretly as cats do in the midst of mouse dreams.
80 Lilian was in her second childhood and Harriet was expecting her second child, which she secretly despised.
81 In 1978, when the factory moved, the union was officially dissolved although it continued to function secretly.
82 He would, for instance, secretly buy 30,000 of a stock for himself on the account.
83 Nevertheless, Richard declared that he had witnesses to prove it and Philip made a tactful withdrawal, secretly plotting with Tancred.
84 A private citizen, secretly acting for the clergy, had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes.
85 One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen. Nelson Mandela
86 C'mon, secretly just between you and me the voice persisted in her head, it would be hard not to.
87 I remember Nora's first postcard - which she sent in an envelope secretly to my office.
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88 The socialist party secretly engineered the defeat of the government.
89 Some parents, whether openly or secretly, may feel quite pleased at the prospect of being grandparents.
90 Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps.
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