Privately
Privately adverb - In a manner intended to prevent knowledge or awareness by others.
Usage example: she confided to me privately that she was considering divorce
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Synonyms for Privately
Undercover and privately are semantically related in underground topic. In some cases you can use "Undercover" instead the word "Privately" as an adverb or an adjective.
Undercover
Undercover adjective - Undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others.
Privately and undercover are semantically related in underground topic. You can use "Privately" instead the word "Undercover" as an adverb or an adjective.
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Related pairs
- inside and privately
- inside and undercover
- underground and privately
- underground and undercover
- clandestine and privately
- clandestine and undercover
- furtively and privately
- furtively and undercover
- secretly and privately
- secretly and undercover
- covertly and privately
- covertly and undercover
- stealthily and privately
- stealthily and undercover
Both words in one sentence
- After Mike kills his former mentor in cold blood for orchestrating his brother's murder, he's forced to go undercover as an alcoholic ex-spy inside a privately-funded terrorist organization.
- In the Doctor Who episode "Human Nature", Martha (who is black), working as a maid in 1913, is the subject of jeers from the privately educated kids in the school she's undercover in.
Source: Discriminate and Switch - Another member of the gang, who is about to die and turns out to be an undercover cop himself, privately tells Costigan that even though he accidentally gave the wrong address for where the informant was going to be, Costigan was at the right one.
Source: I Never Said It Was Poison
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