ulterior
uhl ti ree er
- s lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell - s beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote
a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion
without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"- G.B.Shaw - s coming at a subsequent time or stage
without ulterior argument
- Bad calls by the ump are as much a part of baseball as home run records, rabid fans and watery beer, but a new study shows that an umpire's decision may have a disturbing ulterior .
- If, however, a non-Jew is determined to embrace Judaism, and if no ulterior motive (such as intermarriage) is evident, he may be accepted by local rabbis, whose decision is, as far .
- But conservatives, on and off the air, feel Obama has ulterior motives.