in secret

1. Unknown to others, privately. For example, They met in secret, or, as Shakespeare put it in Love's Labour's Lost (5:2): “One word in secret.” [Second half of 1400s]

Example Sentences

The days when dictators could live in gilded exile with fortunes in secret Swiss bank accounts are mostly over, primarily because of global mechanisms for adjudicating human-rights abuses and tracking ill-gotten gains.

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And yet he lived on in secret, under many names and disguises, including “Judge Quinzy.”

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She longed to take a peek, but alas, because of his pirate oath, his work must be done in secret.

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A spokeswoman for Armstrong said he had mentioned the idea of working in secret, saying it was someone else’s idea, and said he and others present agreed it was a bad idea.

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Some families built their bunkers in secret, worried that neighbors might come knocking.

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Related Words

• clandestinely www.thesaurus.com
• covertly 
• furtively 
• personally 
• privately www.thesaurus.com
• quietly 
• stealthily 
• surreptitiously