covertly
/koʊvˈɝtli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Only a little removed from the predatory oafdom of male adolescence, he is suspicious of Christian and covertly protective of Cher's person and future."
- "Shimon’s interestingly stereotypical role as a conformist, but in reality covertly resistant, dominand […] is accentuated in the second half of the story[.]"
- "Over at least the past year, RT and its employees, including KOSTIANTYN KALASHNIKOV, a/k/a "Kostya," and ELENA AFANASYEVA, a/k/a "Lena," the defendants, have deployed nearly $10 million, laundered through a network of foreign shell entities, to covertly fund and direct U.S. Company-1."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: covertli
Inflected Forms
more covertly (comparative)
most covertly (superlative)