secretively
- r in a secretive manner; with a preference for secrecy
the teacher raised a hand to him, slightly and secretively, because he was her favorite
- The tiled door of a Manhattan auditorium closed secretively last week.
- Comrade Stalin, an Oriental who has taken root behind the Kremlin walls as secretively as any tsar, promptly chose the third alternative and gave it the force of law by his .
- His well-particularized people include a real estate salesman who vaguely lusts after his assistant, who is both a religious fanatic and, more secretively, an erotic dancer.