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 Translation for 'furtive' from English to Slovak
ADJ   furtive | more furtive | most furtive
SYNO backstair | backstairs | furtive | ...
tajný {adj}furtive
kradmý {adj}furtive
nenápadný {adj} [utajovaný]furtive
kradmý pohľad {m}furtive glance
kradmý pohľad {m}furtive look
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Usage Examples English
  • The antpittas, a Neotropical bird family of some 50 species, resemble the pittas in their hopping gait, furtive behaviour, long legs and short tails.
  • Following the truce between Thanagar and Rann, Thanagar began to secretly try to take over the Earth. Hol opposed their efforts in a furtive "secret war" for several years.
  • "Fourteen Words", "14", or "14/88" are furtive shibboleths used among white supremacists in the Anglosphere.
  • These furtive nighttime activities go undetected by Irene.
  • Several tragicomic works mimicked aquatic life with commercial products (often from the petroleum economy that threatens oceanic life), offering ironic, furtive critiques of consumer society.

  • "Ischnura prognata", the furtive forktail, is a species of narrow-winged damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is found in North America.
  • Thompson was caught on CCTV dismantling a mobile phone and acting in a furtive manner.
  • In 2016, "Willamette Week" referred to the Paris as "an adult movie theater, sex club and safe space for public masturbators", and a "shining beacon to furtive men hiding their faces from the Voodoo Doughnut line".
  • Seedy and furtive, Rigsby has poor interpersonal skills.
  • Conversely, secret societies have often furtive or arcane greeting gestures and rituals, such as a secret handshake, which allows members to recognize each other.

  • The furtive nature of pregaming and bingeing can lead to massive quick consumption, acute alcohol poisoning, hospitalization, and death.
  • From the moment he enters the house, he casts furtive and knowing glances at the audience (according to the stage directions) so they know at once that he is not what he pretends to be.
  • Anthropologist Cai Hua termed "tisese" as 'furtive' or 'closed' visiting, meaning no public acknowledgement or obligations are required between parties.
  • A modification of the furtive fallacy holds that when the historical record provides no evidence explaining a particular set of events, this is itself evidence of a furtive cause.
  • The striped treehunter is a furtive species; it is difficult to observe, often exhibiting similar behavior to that of the flammulated treehunter.

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