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covert - a flock of coots |
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flock a group of birds
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coot slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks
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covert - secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels" |
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open,
overt ready for business; "the stores are open"
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implicit,
inexplicit being without doubt or reserve; "implicit trust"
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invisible,
unseeable impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye; "the invisible man"; "invisible rays"; "an invisible hinge"; "invisible mending"
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concealed hidden on any grounds for any motive; "a concealed weapon"; "a concealed compartment in his briefcase"
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backstair,
backstairs,
furtive secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
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black marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
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clandestine,
cloak-and-dagger,
hole-and-corner,
hugger-mugger,
hush-hush,
secret,
surreptitious,
undercover,
underground conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"
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secret the next to highest level of official classification for documents
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collusive,
conniving acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
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cloaked,
disguised,
masked covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks"
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secret the next to highest level of official classification for documents
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behind-the-scenes,
sub-rosa,
under-the-table designed and carried out secretly or confidentially; "a sub-rosa report"; "has their under-the-table backing"
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subterranean,
subterraneous,
ulterior lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed); "subterranean motives for murder"; "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell
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under wraps
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undisclosed,
unrevealed not made known
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covert - (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband; "a woman covert" |
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protected guarded from injury or destruction
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jurisprudence,
law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
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