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What does cloak-and-dagger mean?

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Adjective
  1. Marked by menacing furtive secrecy, often with a melodramatic tint or espionage involved.
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These are some of the questions that the Punjab law, which was enacted in a cloak-and-dagger manner, has raised.
A recent case with facts that read like a cloak-and-dagger novel raises serious questions about the psychotherapist-patient privilege.
Then, it was all murderous cloak-and-dagger stuff conducted far from the light of day, with scant regard for the law or human rights.
This government is better about it than most, but it's had its fair share of power-hungry cloak-and-dagger wonks.
At stake amidst this cloak-and-dagger power play is the growth of not only black rugby, but of rugby as a whole in the region.
The Windows drive is patched with whatever the MS auto-update cloak-and-dagger process does to it.

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