clandestinely

[US]/klæn'destinli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. in a secretive or hidden manner, with activities or plans conducted in a way to avoid being discovered.

Example Sentences

They met clandestinely in the park at midnight.

The spies operated clandestinely to gather information.

She communicated with him clandestinely through coded messages.

The rebels planned their attack clandestinely to avoid detection.

The thieves entered the building clandestinely under the cover of darkness.

The secret society operated clandestinely to avoid government scrutiny.

The drug deal was conducted clandestinely in a remote location.

They communicated clandestinely to coordinate their escape plan.

The agent infiltrated the enemy camp clandestinely to gather intel.

The hackers accessed the system clandestinely to steal sensitive data.

Real-world Examples

It's believed they were trying to reach Europe clandestinely.

Source: BBC Listening Collection June 2022

Some part even of the French wine drank in Great Britain, is clandestinely imported from Holland and Zealand.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Three)

In summary: the Soviet Union did embark upon a bold venture to establish clandestinely in the Western Hemisphere a major offensive weapons base.

Source: Vox opinion

If it had been Sid, she would have had no misgivings to alloy her delight; but since it was Tom, she watched the bottle clandestinely.

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

My employer sent for me one morning tolerably early, and, as soon as I had finished inserting some conundrums clandestinely into his last great speech upon finance, I entered the presence.

Source: The Short Stories of Mark Twain

Skorzeny, ever a self-mythologizer, would claim in later years that the US authorities had been clandestinely involved in helping him escape, but there is no evidential basis for this assertion.

Source: Character Profile

Ms Vallejo's father once found, in a secondhand bookshop, a copy of " Don Quixote" that also contained, clandestinely, writings by Karl Marx that were forbidden in Spain under Franco's dictatorship.

Source: The Economist Culture

He rose up, with a great resolution upon his lips: this secret life should be revealing, and confessed; no longer would he live it clandestinely, he would go and tell her All.

Source: The Short Stories of Mark Twain

In order to obtain the bounty or drawback, the goods, it is well known, are sometimes shipped, and sent to sea, but soon afterwards clandestinely re-landed in some other part of the country.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Five)

This enormous duty presented such a temptation to smuggling, that great quantities of this commodity were clandestinely exported, probably to all the manufacturing countries of Europe, but particularly to Holland, not only from Great Britain, but from Africa.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Four)

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