Usually means: Secretive or stealthy by nature.
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  1. furtive: Merriam-Webster
  2. furtive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. furtive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. furtive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. furtive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Furtive, furtive: Wordnik
  7. furtive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. furtive: Wiktionary
  9. furtive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. furtive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. furtive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Furtive, furtive: Dictionary.com
  13. furtive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. furtive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Furtive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Furtive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. furtive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. furtive: Rhymezone
  19. furtive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. furtive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. furtive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. furtive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. furtive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. furtive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. furtive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. furtive: Legal dictionary

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  1. furtive: Idioms

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  1. furtive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
adjective:  Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
adjective:  Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
adjective:  Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.

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