Furtive
adjective
Doing something secretly to avoid being noticed.
He cast a furtive glance over his shoulder
Often appears as...
- furtive glance
- furtive movement
adjective
Doing something secretly to avoid being noticed.
He cast a furtive glance over his shoulder
Often appears as...
- furtive glance
- furtive movement
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Secrecy
Describes actions done covertly, often implying the person doesn't want others to see.
She took a furtive look at the message on her phone.
Pro Tip 2/3Suggests Guilt
'Furtive' often implies that the person is trying to escape detection due to guilt or wrongdoing.
He had a furtive expression when sneaking out of the room.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The word usually carries a negative connotation, suggesting distrust towards the person's actions.
Her furtive actions made everyone suspect she was hiding something.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Secrecy
Describes actions done covertly, often implying the person doesn't want others to see.
She took a furtive look at the message on her phone.
Pro Tip 2/3Suggests Guilt
'Furtive' often implies that the person is trying to escape detection due to guilt or wrongdoing.
He had a furtive expression when sneaking out of the room.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The word usually carries a negative connotation, suggesting distrust towards the person's actions.
Her furtive actions made everyone suspect she was hiding something.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Secrecy
Describes actions done covertly, often implying the person doesn't want others to see.
She took a furtive look at the message on her phone.
Pro Tip 2/3Suggests Guilt
'Furtive' often implies that the person is trying to escape detection due to guilt or wrongdoing.
He had a furtive expression when sneaking out of the room.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The word usually carries a negative connotation, suggesting distrust towards the person's actions.
Her furtive actions made everyone suspect she was hiding something.
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Does racism affect how...
for example affirmative action which is kind of a political question a policy question about race if you will not much difference here furtive actions not very popular frankly with white voters period but people with black neighbors and people in mana racial neighborhoods feel no differently about it really but if you Probab it deeper and get a bit more
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How fashion helps us...
furtively at first and then furiously, began to spray color onto her. McQueen, thus, before he took his own life, taught us that this body of ours is a canvas, a canvas we get to paint however we want.
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the best time with elephants which happen to move my favorite animals of all the animals that we got in Africa furtive close to mama what a short how nice is that
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Does racism affect how...
for example affirmative action which is kind of a political question a policy question about race if you will not much difference here furtive actions not very popular frankly with white voters period but people with black neighbors and people in mana racial neighborhoods feel no differently about it really but if you Probab it deeper and get a bit more
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How fashion helps us...
furtively at first and then furiously, began to spray color onto her. McQueen, thus, before he took his own life, taught us that this body of ours is a canvas, a canvas we get to paint however we want.
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Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
the best time with elephants which happen to move my favorite animals of all the animals that we got in Africa furtive close to mama what a short how nice is that
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Bowen Yang
A lot of different people under the queer umbrella come together but Like there's something inherently queer about the heist genre, in some way. It's about just flying under the radar and procuring something furtively or, you know, that thing that is just so fun and high-stakes in the way that a lot of queer experiences are.
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Sue Hubbell
American Author
In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.
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Rosemary Mahoney
American Writer
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.
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Sarah Waters
Welsh Novelist
The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.
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Kara Swisher
American Journalist
Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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Morley Safer
Canadian Journalist
We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
American Politician
Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
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Bowen Yang
A lot of different people under the queer umbrella come together but Like there's something inherently queer about the heist genre, in some way. It's about just flying under the radar and procuring something furtively or, you know, that thing that is just so fun and high-stakes in the way that a lot of queer experiences are.
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Sue Hubbell
American Author
In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.
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Rosemary Mahoney
American Writer
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.
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Sarah Waters
Welsh Novelist
The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.
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Kara Swisher
American Journalist
Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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Morley Safer
Canadian Journalist
We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
American Politician
Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
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