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What does furtive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Stealthy.
  2. Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
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I watched the man with furtive caution as we traversed the forest, for I didn't trust him, even if he did not seem villainous.
Sometimes I'll make furtive pilgrimages to the Carnegie Deli to dine on that whopper classic, the hot pastrami on rye.
But his gaze was not nervous or furtive but controlling, establishing a zone that she was not to enter.
We may as well have been poker players, there were so many furtive glances.
From the positions of the heads and eyes, do they look honest and straightforward, shy, or furtive and untrustworthy?
Then, quite by chance, he runs into a woman with whom he had a furtive adolescent relationship.

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