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