Adverb: surreptitiously ,sur-up'ti-shus-lee or ,sú-rup'ti-shus-lee [N. Amer], ,sú-rup'ti-shus-lee [Brit]
- In a surreptitious manner; secretly
"he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby";
- sneakily, clandestinely