ADJECTIVE
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conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
clandestine intelligence operations
cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
secret sales of arms
a secret agent
an undercover investigation
hole-and-corner intrigue
surreptitious mobilization of troops
secret missions
underground resistance -
relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life
a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community
How To Use hole-and-corner In A Sentence
- Unless the districts were considerable they were always more or less a kind of hole-and-corner government.
- These committees merely mean avoiding discussion and a hole-and-corner method of getting amendments through that might not be at all welcome to the country or to the House at large.
- To talk to a foreigner is no longer a sign of political unreliability, and conversations do not have to be carried out in a hole-and-corner fashion, behind walls, with one nervous eye open for spies and eavesdroppers.
- hole-and-corner intrigue
- To talk to a foreigner is no longer a sign of political unreliability, and conversations do not have to be carried out in a hole-and-corner fashion, behind walls, with one nervous eye open for spies and eavesdroppers.
- Not in any hole-and-corner fashion, but right here, in the heart of the ton. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
- He wanted no part in that hole-and-corner conspiracy.
- Instead, they indulged in their usual hole-and-corner and devious manoeuvres.
- She wanted a proper wedding, not some hole-and-corner affair at city hall. A MEANS TO EVIL
- a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community