furtiveness
- a word derived from furtive.
Example Sentences
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Cera brings an amusing furtiveness to Eric, but also a devastating sense of the roiling feelings within.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
The gallery also is showing Paolo Morales’s “Between You and Me,” a suite of black-and-white photos that evoke isolation and furtiveness in downscale American suburbs.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2017
I initially reached out to the page’s admins because I love a conspiracy theory, but aside from a general furtiveness, the admins didn’t sound like prosthelytizers, just concerned citizens.
From The Verge ● Aug. 25, 2016
“He hung up without answering,” Conner tells the reader; the gesture is meant to be read as furtiveness, not indignation.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2016
It was one-thirty in the morning, but in spite of the hour and her turned-up coat collar, there was no air of furtiveness about her at all.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
