secretly

[Se·cret*ly]

In secrecy; not openly

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In a secret manner.

Adverb
not openly; inwardly; "they were secretly delighted at his embarrassment"; "hoped secretly she would change her mind"

Adverb
in secrecy; not openly; "met secretly to discuss the invasion plans"; "the children secretly went to the movies when they were supposed to be at the library"; "they arranged to meet in secret"


adv.
In a secret manner.


Secretly

Se"cret*ly , adv. In a secret manner.

In a secret manner.

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Usage Examples

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

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