| 单词 |
clandestinely |
| 释义 |
clandestinely, adv.|klænˈdɛstɪnlɪ| [f. clandestine a. + -ly2.] In a clandestine manner; secretly, privately: usually in bad sense.
1632High Commission Cases (1886) 277 For..clandestinelie marrying of himself to his now wife. 1654L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 91 His body being interred clandestinely, attended with about an hundred mourners. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 103 Two printed papers clandestinely spread about. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames xiv. 392 If the Seamen, shall clandestinely conceal or import any Foreign Spirituous Liquors. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 39 All this course of reading was carried on clandestinely, for I was a little ashamed of it. |

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