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sub rosa

ADVERB
  1. in secret or covertly
    held a meeting sub rosa to avoid general criticism

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  • held a meeting sub rosa to avoid general criticism
  • Ed also wrote regularly for the series of one-shot mimeo magazines I'd begun producing, sub rosa and under cover of darkness, on a mimeograph machine I'd discovered in a broom closet at the University.
  • In lecture after lecture he turned things to the "rightabout-face" which had hitherto been done _sub rosâ_ in India. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
  • Quibbles about performance and lighting aside, “Roma Sub Rosa’s” peek into the final moments of Tiberius is not an entirely unworthy way to spend twenty-eight minutes. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • He'd been a sub rosa sports story for most of his career—the one-legged wrestler who won high-school championships before starring for hometown Arizona State—but the national title rocketed him to a new atmosphere. An Inspiration Moves Off the Mat
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