sur·rep·ti·tious
adjective/ˌsʌrəpˈtɪʃəs/
/ˌsɜːrəpˈtɪʃəs/
- done secretly or quickly, in the hope that other people will not notice
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.
有人看到他们偷偷地离开了该处所。
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. - She sneaked a surreptitious glance at her watch.