done secretly or quickly, in the hope that other people will not notice synonym furtive秘密的;趁人不注意赶紧进行的 She sneaked a surreptitious glance at her watch. 她偷偷看了一眼手表。 They were seen leaving the premises in a surreptitious manner. 有人看见他们偷偷离开了房子。
Oxford Collocations DictionarySurreptitious is used with these nouns:- glance
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘obtained by suppression of the truth’): from Latin surreptitius (from the verb surripere, from sub- ‘secretly’ + rapere ‘seize’) + -ous.