معنای فرهنگ لغت "دزدیده" تلاش برای اجتناب از توجه یا توجه است، معمولاً به دلیل احساس گناه یا اعتقاد به اینکه کشف منجر به مشکل می شود. مخفیانه همچنین میتواند به کاری اشاره داشته باشد که بهگونهای انجام میشود که محجوب یا مخفیانه باشد.
1. After a furtive look around, he quickly replaced the knives into their various sheaths around his body.
2. Then, with a furtive look at the wall where I was sitting, she snatched the laptop and pulled it into her lap.
3. With a furtive glance toward the room with the guards, she slid along the wall, toward the stairwell.
4. With a frown and a furtive glance behind her, she returned to pinching leaves off her tomato plants.
5. Some cast furtive looks over their shoulders as if the Furies pursued them.
6. He walked very slowly and circumspectly, and there was something indescribably guilty and furtive in his whole appearance.
7. He looked round him with a furtive and stealthy air, as one who dreads pursuit.
8. The instant this was done they issued through the broken gateway, and stealing out by a direction opposite to the one by which they entered, they quitted the spot, the sisters casting furtive glances at the silent, grave and crumbling ruin, as they left the soft light of the moon, to bury themselves in the gloom of the woods.
9. As they held their silent way along the margin of the pond, again Heyward and the scout stole furtive glances at its appalling dreariness.
10. The youth in front threw serious but furtive glances at the mangled victims, as he stepped lightly across the plain, afraid to exhibit his feelings, and yet too inexperienced to quell entirely their sudden and powerful influence.