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   Sur·rep·ti·tious

   /ˌsərəpˈtiSHəs/

   

   adjective

   • 1. kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of: "they carried on a surreptitious affair"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘obtained by suppression of the truth’): from Latin surreptitius (from the verb surripere, from sub- ‘secretly’ + rapere ‘seize’) + -ous.

   Derivatives

   • 1. surreptitiousness noun

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