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surreptitious

adj
/ˌsʌɹɪpˈtɪʃəs/UK/səˌɹɛpˈtɪʃəs/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin surrēptīcius (“furtive, clandestine”), from surrēpō (“to creep along”).

  1. borrowed from surrēptīcius

Definitions

  1. Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).

    • He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
    • It is also worth noting the case law on prisoners' correspondence which establishes that interception of a person's communications need not be surreptitious in order to amount to an interference with respect to Art 8 (1) [ECHR].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at surreptitious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at surreptitious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at surreptitious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA