Associations to the word «Furtive»

Wiktionary

FURTIVE, adjective. Stealthy
FURTIVE, adjective. Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

Dictionary definition

FURTIVE, adjective. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch".
FURTIVE, adjective. Secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior".

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery