Private and Ulterior

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Private adjective - Not known or meant to be known by the general populace.

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Ulterior and private are semantically related In some cases you can use "Ulterior" instead an adjective "Private".

Ulterior adjective - Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed).

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Private and ulterior are semantically related in secondary topic. Sometimes you can use "Private" instead an adjective "Ulterior".

Nearby Word: ulteriorly

In The Short-Timers (a Vietnam War novel by Gustav Hasford) the protagonist, Genre Savvy private Joker, sometimes salutes in a combat zone with some ulterior motives.

Source: Military Salute
Inverted in 28 Days Later, in which we are treated to plenty of naked Cillian Murphy but the lead female keeps her bra on the whole time, and, in fact, requests that the soldiers leave the room so she can change her clothes in private (there was an ulterior motive for this).

Source: Right Through His Pants
Subverted twice on The Practice: On 2 occasions, one of the attorneys was defending an old friend for making a questionable judgement call, only to find out in private that the defendant had ulterior motives and was just using their friendship to get a good defense.

Source: Debate and Switch

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