Usually means: Secretly, often to avoid detection.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. clandestinely: Merriam-Webster
  2. clandestinely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clandestinely: Collins English Dictionary
  4. clandestinely: Vocabulary.com
  5. clandestinely: Wordnik
  6. clandestinely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. clandestinely: Wiktionary
  8. clandestinely: Dictionary.com
  9. clandestinely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. clandestinely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. clandestinely: FreeDictionary.org
  12. clandestinely: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clandestinely: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clandestinely)

▸ adverb:  In a secret or covert manner.
▸ adverb:  In an illicit way, i.e. not permitted by the law or regulations.

Similar:
covertly, secretively, secretly, concealedly, cloakedly, hiddenly, hidingly, furtively, unsecretively, stealthily, more...

Types:
surreptitiously, furtively, secretly, undercover, covert, more...

Phrases:
uses a keyhole clandestinely, more...

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Similar:
covertly, secretively, secretly, concealedly, cloakedly, hiddenly, hidingly, furtively, unsecretively, stealthily, more...

Types:
surreptitiously, furtively, secretly, undercover, covert, more...

Phrases:
uses a keyhole clandestinely, more...



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