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    Furtively is the adverb of furtive: it tells you how someone does a thing, not what kind of person they are. He looked furtively around the room. She furtively slipped the note into her pocket. The flavour is the same as furtive — quiet, secret, a little guilty, hoping not to be seen — but it sits on the verb. You will meet it often in stories. It is a little more formal than “secretly”, and it is not quite the same: secretly can be calm and planned; furtively usually looks nervous, as if the person might get caught. Though actually, writers sometimes it for any quiet action. A nurse moving softly at night is not furtive unless she is hiding something.

    鬼鬼祟祟地、偷偷摸摸地

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組成furtive + -ly (the usual ending that turns an adjective into an adverb). From Middle English furtyvely.

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furtivelyadv/ˈfɜːtɪvli/

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    In a furtive manner.

    • And furtively Time looked him in the face and edged towards him fingering with his dripping fingers the hilt of his nimble sword.
    • The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee!

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