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• n  the state of being covert and hidden

• Is it the secretiveness and the covertness? Yeah, all of that stuff.
• For all his reputation for covertness, Nixon's real problem was his inability to conceal the darkly busy workings of his mind--the wheels turning, the eyes darting.
• There was no actual covertness.

• hiddenness

Quotes

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• Tom Verducci in Newsday
  After the 2007 season, Verducci wrote a scathing column for SI.com on the team's handling of Torre's departure, writing, "There is blood everywhere on [Randy] Levine and the boys, remnants of a sloppiness and covertness The Boss never knew."