covertly

English

Etymology

From Middle English covertli, equivalent to covert +‎ -ly.

Adverb

covertly (comparative more covertly, superlative most covertly)

1. In a covert manner, secretly.
   • 1999, Barbara Tepa Lupack, Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies, page 123:

     Only a little removed from the predatory oafdom of male adolescence, he is suspicious of Christian and covertly protective of Cher's person and future.

   • 2009, Seth Schwartz, Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?, page 134:

     Shimon’s interestingly stereotypical role as a conformist, but in reality covertly resistant, dominand […] is accentuated in the second half of the story[.]

Translations

secretly — see secretly