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unauthorized; clandestine, ( ; ); There was a murmur
of surreptitious, half-ironic applause. — The Combined Maze;
• (furtive)- taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret,
( ; ; ; - ; ); His eyes were bloodshot
and furtive, his mouth was drawn back in a half-grin of hate and misery. —
The Trespasser;
• (undercover)- performed or occurring in secret; "He is going to be
shadowed by undercover Spanish troops posing as tourists." — Mission Of
Honor;
• (cloak-and-dagger)- marked by melodramatic intrigue and often by
espionage, ( ; ); A genuine cloak-
and-dagger atmosphere was creeping in. — The Great Escape;
• (privy)- participating in the knowledge of something private or secret,
( - ); Westminster Abbey was a mob of dukes,
statesmen, privy-councilors, and men of countless acres. — Blackwood's
Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847;
• (ulterior)- being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept
concealed, ( ; ); The spirit of
our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has
no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and
selfishness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson;
• (espionage)- the use of spies by a government to discover the military and
political secrets of other nations, ( ); The organization,
which investigates economic espionage in the United States, is the FBI;
• (underhand)- marked by deception; achieved success in business only by
underhand methods;
• (handy)- easy to reach;
conundrum = brain-teaser = enigma = riddle ~ rebus : labyrinth : paradox :
hedge
• (conundrum)- riddle; difficult problem, ( / ); The answer to
this conundrum will be ascertained on reading the book. — Punch, or the
London Charivari, Volume 99, November 8, 1890;
• (brain-teaser)- a difficult problem; The brain-teaser is deceptively simple;
• (enigma)- a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation, (
, , , ); This enigma is explained in the fact that
the five letters of his name are the initials of those of Vittorio Emanuele Re
D'Italia. — The Great Italian and French Composers;
• (riddle)- a question or statement so framed as to exercise one's ingenuity in