Crossword-Solution: COVERTLY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Covertly | adv. | Secretly; in private; insidiously. |
We have 49 clues for the answer “COVERTLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| In cloak-and-dagger style | 1 answer |
| Insidiously. | 1 answer |
| by stealth | 1 answer |
| On the sly | 5 answers |
| in camera | 6 answers |
| clandestinely | 8 answers |
| clearly | 35 answers |
| outwardly | 36 answers |
| patently | 36 answers |
| OB-viously! | 36 answers |
| ostensibly | 37 answers |
| stealthily | 38 answers |
| surreptitiously | 39 answers |
| Surely! | 39 answers |
| overtly | 40 answers |
| officially | 40 answers |
| allegedly | 41 answers |
| externally | 41 answers |
| as though | 42 answers |
| quasi | 43 answers |
| candidly | 43 answers |
| Furtively | 43 answers |
| Supposedly. | 43 answers |
| Evidently ... | 45 answers |
| rounded off | 45 answers |
| Sort of | 46 answers |
| seemingly | 48 answers |
| superficially | 48 answers |
| Seeming | 48 answers |
| Doubtless | 55 answers |
| Secretly | 55 answers |
| plainly | 58 answers |
| Possibly | 59 answers |
| apparently | 61 answers |
| falsely | 61 answers |
| Circa | 64 answers |
| Roughly | 65 answers |
| Thereabouts | 67 answers |
| Generally | 67 answers |
| slyly | 68 answers |
| Close to | 68 answers |
| Semi | 69 answers |
| Nearly | 69 answers |
| Almost | 75 answers |
| Around | 77 answers |
| all but | 79 answers |
| Yes __! | 82 answers |
| Approxi-mately | 82 answers |
| Of course | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COVERTLY (5)
Slipping along here covertly as Time, Bathsheba fancied she could hear footsteps entering the track at the opposite end.
Ann Eliza, covertly observing her, felt that Evelina was not sorry to be observed, and that her own acute consciousness of the act was somehow regarded as magnifying its significance.
Nevertheless our old game with the haver of a thing, as she called it, was continued, with this difference, that it was now she who carried the book covertly upstairs, and I who replaced it on the shelf, and several times we caught each other in the act, but not a word said either of us; we were grown self-conscious.
Perhaps an hour had passed when my uncle, who had all the while been covertly gazing on the surface of the little bay, rose to his feet and bade me follow his example.
The eating will be light from now on; just a little something salty now and then." So Miss Fink dabbed covertly at her eyes and betook herself out of the atmosphere of roasting, and broiling, and frying, and stewing; away from the sight of great copper kettles, and glowing coals and hissing pans, into a little world fragrant with mint, breathing of orange and lemon peel, perfumed with pineapple, redolent of cinnamon and clove, reeking with things spirituous.
Quotes with COVERTLY (3)
I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most wh…
Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1963–1986).