Vocabulary Word
Word: covert
Definition: secret; hidden; implied; OP. overt
Definition: secret; hidden; implied; OP. overt
Sentences Containing 'covert'
After stooping to put the bottle on the ground, he looked up at the windows, and looked about; though with a covert and impatient air, as if he was anxious to be gone.
But I declined these offers; being already aware that there were plenty of such covert practitioners in existence, and considering the Commons quite bad enough, without my doing anything to make it worse.
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