covert
1
9.9
- adjective
- /ˈkoʊvərt/
- Archaic
:
sometida a su marido
- It is now covert.
Examples
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What can you do if you get post-traumatic stress disorder in a covert war?
Blog text (8) -
And if there's one thing I know, it's women and covert ops.
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Such covert measures became critical to women writers for whom composition was suspect.
Academic text (2017) -
A few weeks after the divorce, I paid a covert visit to Lorna Sue and her new husband.
Fiction book (1999) -
There was no harm in this revelation, since what I was doing wasn't covert at all.
Fiction book (1999) -
There was no covert change in our legal system in 1938; Eerie Railroad v. Tomkins did not somehow mystically change our legal system.
Blog text (11) -
A Google search at the time easily identified who Joseph Wilson's wife was; it just didn't mention the fact that she was a covert CIA agent.
Blog text (1) -
Harsh rebuke you would receive from him for your covert partiality (13:9-10).
Academic text (2006) -
My boss was a covert Communist—very bright, very well-read, very humane.
Blog text (10) -
Under the old law, a wife was considered to be under her husband's covert authority, meaning she had limited legal rights.
Antonyms
Compounds
3
5.8
A secret operation by soldiers or spies to gather information and carry out dangerous tasks
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Covert in old law also comes from the idea of being 'covered' by someone, like being under another person's protection, so a wife was seen as 'under cover' of her husband. That is why the legal sense of covert meant a woman under her husband's authority.