stealthily
Adverb
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Adverb
stealthily
- In a stealthy manner, furtively.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
- So intent was he upon this personal appraisement of his features that he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him as a great body pushed itself stealthily through the jungle; nor did his companion, the ape, hear either, for he was drinking and the noise of his sucking lips and gurgles of satisfaction drowned the quiet approach of the intruder.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
- French: furtivement
- German: heimlich, verstohlen
- Italian: furtivamente, di nascosto
- Portuguese: sorrateiramente, furtivamente, secretamente
- Russian: укра́дкой
- Spanish: furtivamente, sigilosamente, a hurtadillas
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