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What does covertly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a covert manner, secretly.
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At the time, the US was covertly backing the contras, the counter-revolutionaries who opposed the Sandinistas.
Vanessa covertly observes him as he sets their dinnerware at the table, while she cooks their dinner.
Pressing a button on the back of the device enables a worker to covertly raise an alarm.
I need you to go in covertly and collect as much information as possible so that I can present it to those thickheads and get approval.
They are just a minor part of an immense criminal operation that is covertly linked to terrorist groups.
Therefore, sending him to operate covertly behind enemy lines was a tremendous risk for the regime.

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