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Done secretly to avoid notice or disapproval.

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surreptitious

She took a surreptitious glance at the unfinished portrait.
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Felix then discovered a subterfuge: the speaker had labeled the removal of unfavorable comments as a routine formatting correction. A surreptitious revision had also changed the circulated copy without alerting the committee.
From The Proposal Behind the Persuasion.
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