Usually means: Secretive or stealthy in manner.
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  1. furtively: Merriam-Webster
  2. furtively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. furtively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. furtively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Furtively, furtively: Wordnik
  6. furtively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. furtively: Wiktionary
  8. Furtively, furtively: Dictionary.com
  9. furtively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Furtively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. furtively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. furtively: Rhymezone
  13. Furtively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. furtively: FreeDictionary.org
  15. furtively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. furtively: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a furtive manner.

Similar:
on the sly, stealthily, secretively, sneakishly, clandestinely, sneakily, surreptitiously, unsecretively, hiddenly, undeviously, more...

Opposite:
openly, boldly, overtly

Types:
surreptitiously, stealthily, clandestinely, covertly, more...

Phrases:
snoop around furtively, move furtively, moved furtively, advance furtively, walk furtively, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     midnight blue,     shadow gray,     deep forest green,     obsidian, more...

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Similar:
on the sly, stealthily, secretively, sneakishly, clandestinely, sneakily, surreptitiously, unsecretively, hiddenly, undeviously, more...

Opposite:
openly, boldly, overtly

Types:
surreptitiously, stealthily, clandestinely, covertly, more...

Phrases:
snoop around furtively, move furtively, moved furtively, advance furtively, walk furtively, more furtively, enter furtively, glance furtively, moves furtively, look furtively, edge furtively, view furtively, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     midnight blue,     shadow gray,     deep forest green,     obsidian, more...



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