stealthily
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Adverb[edit]
stealthily (comparative more stealthily, superlative most stealthily)
- In a stealthy manner, furtively.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
- The dog obeyed the significant beck of his finger, and they drew off, stealthily, together.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
- So intent was he upon this personal appraisement of his features that he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him as a great body pushed itself stealthily through the jungle; nor did his companion, the ape, hear either, for he was drinking and the noise of his sucking lips and gurgles of satisfaction drowned the quiet approach of the intruder.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Translations[edit]
in a stealthy manner
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