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Sentence Examples The self-absorbed men take center stage via a series of furtive crouches, runs, hops, and boxing feints. She is seething with illusive fragmentary gold being bewitched typhlotic furtive much like a hovering sapphire embrasure or imaginal sanguinary. From his furtive and imperfect glimpses, he projects a continuity, itself irrevocably impossible. They are shunned, broken, dispossessed, and live a bleak, furtive life of agonizing loneliness. When talking to Mr. Horsfield, who will become her lover, she powders her face, appearing to Horsfield as controlled, furtive, and calculating. And they do not want male waiters casting furtive looks and breathing down their necks. Taking a furtive glance around for his father, Joe considered his next move. I didn't miss the furtive glance he cast around to check if anyone was looking. He cast a furtive glance around the square and, seeing that his admirer had not yet gone away, bent over his boot again. I took a furtive look around, digested the unfamiliar surroundings, and backtracked. Someone else appears to be indulging in a furtive attempt to see what they can get away with. I could see that he took a couple of furtive glances at what I was doing, but he wasn't really watching. Picking up his briefcase, he headed towards the police station, noticing a little more furtive activity today than usual. Micromounters are looked upon as some sort of secret society that does furtive things under microscopes for inexplicable reasons. He cast furtive glances out of the corner of his eye, looking for Kathleen but couldn't seem to spot her. While lord of the castle, he longs for useful work such as he did at the forge, but even his furtive attempts to fix a castle lock are foiled. She cast a furtive glance over her shoulder and caught a glimpse of Alex's dejected and sullen expression. Arnold, even as he issues obligatory denials, is, unlike Bill, neither furtive nor guilty. The ferocious snarl of the Tyrannosaurus Rex has been replaced by a furtive shameful glance. We may as well have been poker players, there were so many furtive glances. Show More Sentences The look the officer had given Ian had been furtive, almost guilty, and Ian sensed disapproval in the man's silence. Our generation's pseudo-hip-hop air jabbing and furtive wiggles just didn't hack it. There is something in a furtive glance of eyes on the subway, or from the passing crowd that does not tend to permanence. Fed up and bored, Owen cast a furtive glance around the customs hall and then sidled over to Bret for a bit of a chat. Instead it's a candid admission he once lived the furtive lifestyle of a sinister international beer villain. But his gaze was not nervous or furtive but controlling, establishing a zone that she was not to enter. Despite his trepidation, betrayed by occasional furtive glances to the right and left, Waddley was the quintessence of efficiency. For the philosopher Roland Barthes, the power of furtive photography stems from its ability to disclose part of its subject's subconscious. These clues are doled out slowly, often in half-overheard conversations or in a furtive glance or gesture. Then, quite by chance, he runs into a woman with whom he had a furtive adolescent relationship. Sometimes I'll make furtive pilgrimages to the Carnegie Deli to dine on that whopper classic, the hot pastrami on rye. He's got that furtive manner of someone always on the make, someone looking for an angle, probing for a weakness. There was a sudden wave of tittering from my daughter's classmates and furtive looks. Farther back, there's furtive jack-in-the-pulpit and mayapple, and along our driveway, wild columbine's whiskered pendants. From the positions of the heads and eyes, do they look honest and straightforward, shy, or furtive and untrustworthy? Some quaint and furtive figures slid silently along the walls with a fearful air. For her part, Christine noticed the partially furtive glances, and it saddened her more than she would've cared to admit. I watched the man with furtive caution as we traversed the forest, for I didn't trust him, even if he did not seem villainous. In the London National Gallery version, probably by a Neapolitan imitator of Caravaggio, Salome looks away with furtive pleasure. He had been stealing furtive looks in her direction for the whole time his conversation with the other girls was taking place. Show More Sentences Of late he has been paying furtive but detailed attention to his hair and his neckties and the hang of his clothes. But their moves were quiet and furtive, and hard to trace, and so I was forced to use subtle methods to seek the root of this vile blossom. The stowing of the rubbish seemed surreptitious, even furtive, to a young and ignorant mind. The handwriting clearly belonged to an unstable, conniving, furtive, shallow creep. The dam was moaning, opening, unlocking a furtive, unknown world beneath. The two exchanged furtive glances in slight panic at this last comment. He casts a furtive, almost embarrassed glance around the nearby area. It's almost unbearably tempting to suggest a furtive flick on the nose. The word furtive might have been invented to describe his dodgy demeanour. The new game finds our furtive hero having to infiltrate a diverse assortment of sites such as military airbases, harbors and secret government installations. Here we see the furtive behavior of Tomik as a desperate need to connect, and even, given his repression, as an understandable misdirection of desire. He fancied himself a Marxist, lived in rooming houses under aliases and was a furtive, nasty man. Here is real, unmistakable nastiness of a fetid, furtive kind, whispered in corners after a cautious glance over the shoulder. Sanger turned birth control from a furtive, underground pursuit into an international movement. A furtive local sidled up to me holding a pad and a ballpoint. Thanks to their dazzling diversity of color, furtive nature, and transient presence, warblers and their fellow neotropical migrants monopolize spring birding. All he could see was this fake white beard and tell from certain furtive movements that Grampa was trying to sneak a peek at him without being noticed. The smell of perfume takes me right back to those furtive fumblings. Tansini's approach is the antithesis of Parry's, replacing measured inexorability with a sequence of flurried, furtive conversations that hurtle into the stuff of nightmare. After a furtive glance toward his father, Jeremy answered it. Show More Sentences People are distracted, throwing furtive glances over their shoulders. An elbow-to-elbow, vacuum-packed dancefloor pulsated with a noisy crowd that continually caught furtive glances at themselves in the wall-to-wall mirrors. I needed a few liveners if I was to face, in two hours time, a parade of my words and furtive people on a stage. I ordered a beer. Except for furtive movements by individual submarines and minelayers, not a dog stirred from August till November. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Local teenagers, resplendent in their dazzling ao dais and designer shirts, exchange furtive glances, as we race past hip nightclubs and trendy bars. Small, stooping, and shabby, like an insulted and injured Dostoyevskian hero, he crept around in a furtive fashion with his hat covering his face and his eyes wet with tears. Yet ours was a common story, small-time miscreants, refusniks of the minor variety, furtive delinquents slipping off the reservation, but only to the party store next door. Hence the furtive glances toward diploma mills like Trinity. Furtive and nimble tipplers and topers nightly dodged through alleys and back yards under the noses of the flashlamp-carrying guards. Furtive peanut oil can also pop up in unexpected places, like egg rolls, bird feed and animal chow. Furtive glances dissect her at thighs, hips, stomach, chest and face. Examples from Classical Literature There was something furtive, secretive, about Adderley's entire mode of life. Make ceaseless attack upon the furtive quibbling that the Dames de Saint-Louis keep up about their time. I looked at his furtive eyes and brutal, doltish face, but he kept them blank as a wall. For days his eyes had been furtive and evasive, but now at last they were steady. And in the low bushes could be discerned the lurking, furtive, shadowy jackals. But his furtive movements had not the serene impassibility of the somnambulist. For a man moved, silent and furtive, in the tunnel between me and the stope! The little girls actually point to me with furtive, vinegary glances, for they are more ingenuously hypocritical than women. I stayed with her, casting displeased and furtive glances at the Prince. Buck Kendall was casting furtive glances at the kilowatt-hour meter. There was something furtive about his manner, for all he was undisguised. The pink plump face was contorted in a furtive grimace of deprecation. He had an innate dislike to the man, who looked furtive and underhanded. Leonard, though furtive, was untidy, and left it lying about. Told under the breath, with furtive glances to right and to left. For awhile she worked aimlessly, with furtive glances at cronk. He was endeavoring to fix and hold those dark, furtive eyes. In the first place, it was a furtive, underhand blow at this nonsense of knight errantry, though nobody suspected that but me. Her actions when thus engaged were furtive and secretive, like those of some nocturnal animal. In spite of their high resolve, there was a very measurable degree of the furtive in their meetings. Show More Sentences He looked round him with a furtive and stealthy air, as one who dreads pursuit. The females were less numerous than the males, and liable to much furtive persecution in spite of the monogamy the Law enjoined. As they held their silent way along the margin of the pond, again Heyward and the scout stole furtive glances at its appalling dreariness. He walked very slowly and circumspectly, and there was something indescribably guilty and furtive in his whole appearance. But if Anne ever hoped that she was forgetting Owen Ford she would have been undeceived by the furtive hunger in Leslie's eyes whenever his name was mentioned. Nevertheless, I stole furtive glances behind me now and then to see that no avenging mate, older and bigger than my quarry, was racing up from the rear. There was something furtive and lurking about her that Jerry did not fail to sense, and he had long since learned that something was wrong when any black lurked or skulked. She shut the door behind us with something of a slam, and her black cat followed us so far, with stealthy, furtive footsteps, that we were frightened of it. They had gathered round George, who beckoned, she felt, over the rubbish, the sloppy thoughts, the furtive yearnings that were beginning to cumber her soul. This program of furtive meetings in the hills would have to discontinue. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of furtive? Words that rhyme with furtive What is the adverb for furtive? What is the adjective for furtive? What is the noun for furtive? Translations for furtive Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words furthest further to further than furthers further on furthermost furtively furtiveness fur trade fur-trimmed furuncle furuncular 7-letter Words Starting With f fu fur furt furti furtiv