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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn