clandestine🔊

Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

📑 Synonyms: covert furtive hush-hush secret secretive undercover

💬 Quotations

Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire. Mr. and Mrs. Morland never did.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1818)

(Freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.

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