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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91 Shortly afterwards, he secretly arranged for the building of a cargo fleet to carry the ore via the Great Lakes.
92 If we had gone on, our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced.
93 But not without secretly implementing a scheme whereby the computer could also work with a bigger load512K.
94 The colours on the sea grew flat, flatly reflected flesh secretly seen at night down in the steerage.
95 In June of last year Mr Gorbachev met secretly with leaders of the radical opposition.
96 It masks its true intentions, it conceals the objectives that it secretly pursues: these objectives can not be disclosed.
97 The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle
98 Eddie's actress wife Patsy Ann Scott secretly filmed the roly-poly star as he snoozed in bed.
99 There have been accusations that the prime minister secretly colluded with the leaders of the regime.
100 Item - Gaveston had hated Lady Eleanor, and he, so Corbett secretly believed, was capable of cold-blooded murder.
101 She was secretly hoping that by some magic coincidence, Alan might phone while she was watching the tape.
102 To speak secretly, or to speak to one's self; to think within one's self. 3.
103 However, on 18 June, a secretly organised mass picket caught the police momentarily off guard.
104 Or he may secretly be under guard in Dracula's castle.
105 The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now been debunked as myth.
106 Mediobanca is being forced to acquire the 10 percent stake after secretly buying that much in October.
107 Work on controlled thermonuclear fusion proceeded secretly in both nations and in Britain.
108 We wrapped the body in a blanket, then my husband buried it secretly in the hills.
109 He is also an inveterate hater of Mrs Joe, whom he attacks secretly, inflicting injuries from which she eventually dies.
110 Characteristic is a reluctance to admit the quantity consumed, drinking secretly alone, and taking gradually increasing amounts.
111 The only thing wrong was that secretly she hated her life and everything about it.
112 Cranston glared at the small statue in a niche, the Virgin and Child; secretly, the coroner hated Christmas.
113 To be a good business man is the epitome of development and these learned people secretly aspire to that goal.
114 Perhaps he'd always secretly resented giving his name to another man's child, she thought sadly.
115 I suspected that deep down he was a Luddite who secretly preferred old-fashioned conventional fences.
116 That pleased the smart set, but secretly the old money decided it was a bit tacky.
117 Once each year George and Doris secretly meet in a quaint seaside resort,(sentencedict .com) rekindling what has become a 25-year fling.
118 Out of bravado Fleury dismissed these fears as groundless, but he was secretly rather alarmed.
119 For every movie they let go beyond two hours, they secretly think they have an Academy Award winner.
120 But two years later, it secretly decided to upgrade the base and kicked the city out in 1953.
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