surreptitiousness

surreptitiousness
The state or quality of being surreptitious.

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  • surreptitiousness — index bad faith, deceit, dishonesty, false pretense, fraud, improbity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • surreptitiousness — See surreptitiously. * * * …   Universalium

  • surreptitiousness — n. quality of being surreptitious, quality of being clandestine, covertness, secretness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • surreptitiousness — …   Useful english dictionary

  • secrecy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. concealment, confidence, hiding, seclusion, privacy, retirement, solitude, mystery, dark, darkness, isolation, reticence, stealth, surreptitiousness. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. concealment, covertness, confidentiality …   English dictionary for students

  • surreptitious — surreptitiously, adv. surreptitiousness, n. /serr euhp tish euhs/, adj. 1. obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance. 2. acting in a stealthy way. 3. obtained by subreption; subreptitious …   Universalium

  • bad faith — n: intentional deception, dishonesty, or failure to meet an obligation or duty no evidence of bad faith compare good faith in bad faith: with or characterized by intentional deception or dishonesty possessor in bad faith an obligation …   Law dictionary

  • deceit — de·ceit n: deliberate and misleading concealment, false declaration, or artifice: deception theft by deceit; also: the tort of committing or carrying out deceit an action for deceit see also fraud, misrepresentation …   Law dictionary

  • fraud — n [Latin fraud fraus] 1 a: any act, expression, omission, or concealment calculated to deceive another to his or her disadvantage; specif: a misrepresentation or concealment with reference to some fact material to a transaction that is made with… …   Law dictionary

  • dishonesty — I noun bad faith, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, corruptness, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deviation from probity, dishonor, disingenuousness, disposition to deceive, disposition to defraud, disposition ro lie, duplicity …   Law dictionary

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