furtiveness

furtiveness
Synonyms and related words:
artfulness, clandestine behavior, clandestinity, covertness, craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, duplicity, falseheartedness, falseness, guile, hypocrisy, indirection, insidiousness, prowl, prowling, shiftiness, slinkiness, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, stalking, stealth, stealthiness, surreptitiousness, treacherousness, underground activity, underhand dealing, underhandedness

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  • furtiveness — index bad faith, concealment, deceit, dishonesty, fraud, improbity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • furtiveness — furtive ► ADJECTIVE ▪ characterized by guilty or evasive secrecy; stealthy. DERIVATIVES furtively adverb furtiveness noun. ORIGIN Latin furtivus, from furtum theft …   English terms dictionary

  • furtiveness — noun see furtive …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • furtiveness — See furtively. * * * …   Universalium

  • furtiveness — noun The quality of being furtive …   Wiktionary

  • furtiveness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The act of proceeding slowly, deliberately, and secretly to escape observation: slinkiness, sneakiness, stealth, stealthiness. See MOVE …   English dictionary for students

  • furtiveness — fur·tive·ness || fÉœrtɪvnɪs / fɜːt n. elusiveness, sneakiness; craftiness, slyness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • furtiveness — fur·tive·ness …   English syllables

  • furtiveness — See: furtive …   English dictionary

  • furtiveness — noun a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously • Syn: ↑sneakiness, ↑stealthiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑stealthy (for: ↑stealthiness), ↑sneaky ( …   Useful english dictionary

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