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Pronunciation: [stˈɛlθɪlɪ] (IPA)

Stealthily is an adverb that means in a secretive or surreptitious manner. Some of the synonyms for this word include cautiously, quietly, furtively, and sneakily. Other synonyms for stealthily include covertly, slyly, clandestinely, and underhandedly. The word skulkingly can also replace stealthily, which means to move in a suspicious or sneaky way. These synonyms describe actions taken with great care and intention to avoid being seen or detected. Whether it's creeping around silently or acting suspiciously, there are many different ways to express the idea of moving stealthily. Using these synonyms can bring clarity and variety to your writing.

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What are the opposite words for stealthily?

Antonyms for the word "stealthily" refer to actions that are in opposition to secrecy, caution or secrecy. Words that convey this meaning include boldly, openly, brazenly, audaciously, and overtly. These words suggest a lack of discretion and a willingness to be seen, heard or noticed. They are indicative of actions taken without the intention of concealment, with little regard for limits of propriety,, and with no attempt at being subtle. By contrast, they embrace the idea of being visible, vocal, and noticeable in the course of one's activities. As such, they offer a refreshing counterpoint to the unassuming, secretive nature of stealthy action.

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Usage examples for Stealthily

Your honor's a friend of his, I believe, added he, stealthily.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Merl peered stealthily at the speaker over the great folds of the shawl that enveloped his throat; he was not without his misgivings that the artist was a "deep fellow," assuming a manner of simplicity to draw him into a confidence.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Having disposed of her horse at one end of the shed, Mary stealthily drew nigh the kitchen window, and looked in.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever

Famous quotes with Stealthily

  • Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.
    Thomas Hardy
  • I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child. In my village-school days, I used to buy stealthily the popular novels and historical recitals. Fearing that my father and my teacher might punish me for this and rob me of these treasures, I carefully hid them in secret places where I could enjoy them unmolested. As I grew older, my love for strange stories became even stronger, and I learned of things stranger than what I had read in my childhood. When I was in my thirties my memory was full of these stories accumulated through years of eager seeking. [...] I have sometimes laughingly said to myself that it is not I who have found these ghosts and monsters, but they, the monstrosities themselves, which have found me!
    Wu Cheng'en
  • The relation between physical sanitary laws and the national welfare is now hardly disputed. At this moment the cholera is stealthily feeling its terrible way along the edges of Europe to this country, and there is not an intelligent man who does not know that it is a divine vengeance upon uncleanliness. Let it seize the unclean city of New York, and it will riot in horror and devastation. Panic will empty the palaces, trade will stop in the warehouses. Those who can will flee, while the poor and wretched, poisoned in tenement-houses, will be huddled in heaps of agony and death. Does any man say that cholera is God's remedy for overpopulation? On the contrary, it is only the ghastly proof that God's laws of human health are disregarded. It is not a proclamation that the world is over-peopled; it is merely a warning for the world to provide decently for its population. God does not create men in his image to rot in tenement-houses, and he will make squalor and filth and misery plague-spots threatening the fairest prosperity, until that prosperity acknowledges in vast sanitary reforms that cleanliness is next to godliness. And if the dread pestilence now approaching our shores would frighten us into universal purgation of our foul cities, it would be seen at this moment hovering in the wintry air, not an angry demon, but a stem angel with a sword of fire to open the path of knowledge and humanity and civilization.
    George William Curtis
  • Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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