Done in a way to avoid being noticed, underhand, not straightfoward.
Beatrice was married now, with a family of her own, and because times were hard her sister helped her with surreptitious gifts of money; and with clothes, toys, and treats for the children.
At that time, seven years after the fall of the Berlin wall, shocking revelations about the regime were still emerging in the media: the surreptitious, deadly irradiation of dissidents; the imprisonment of children as punishment to their parents; the lunatic plans to invade West Berlin.
“The whole edifice of medical training is based on subterfuge,” he wrote in the online magazine Slate while a second-year surgical resident 10 years ago, going on to deconstruct the surreptitious manipulations that conspire to camouflage medicine’s inexperienced trainees.
Abigail Zuger, The New York Times, 15 May 2007, New York Times
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