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secretly

/ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/ adverb B1
  1. In secret, covertly. · Mary cheated secretly in the test, and never got caught.
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Very little was said by either; Kitty was too much afraid of him to talk; Elizabeth was secretly forming a desperate resolution; and, perhaps, he might be doing the same.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 342 · B2
As for Elizabeth herself, this invitation was so far from exciting in her the same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she considered it as the death-warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make her, were it known, she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her go.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 260 · B2
I deceived everybody, therefore, yourself included, and I came down secretly when I was supposed to be in London.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 213 · C1
This person, a sailor, of turbulent character, and whom I suspected of Bonapartism, has been secretly to the Island of Elba.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 97 · C1

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