Example sentences for: furtive

How can you use “furtive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With his susceptibility to ridicule and parody, his air of furtive portentousness, his apocalyptic Manichaean vision of purity overtaken by disease, his dazzling displays of the uncanny intuitive skills that sometimes accompany obsession, he was a pulp-fiction Dostoyevsky, an author he admired above all others.

  • (In a furtive sort of way.)

  • First you get the secret hotel meetings, the furtive use of code names, the artful deflection of an outsider's nosy question about the relationship.

  • To put in perspective the conspiratorial inferences that Estrich strains to draw from seeing me with Starr deputy Jackie Bennett at the Jefferson Hotel bar--a block or so from the Washington Post , where I always go when I'm looking for a secure locale in which to do furtive things--perhaps Estrich should know that I also had some beers recently with a member of the Clinton defense team.

  • The director clearly adores Ryan, but she's the actress's worst enemy, goading her into ever more sickening reaches of chin-wagging cuteness--such as her fatuous look of enchantment on the subway or the furtive little hip-hops to her laptop after her Luddite boyfriend has left for the office.


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