STEALTHILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stealthily mean? 

• STEALTHILY (adverb)
  The adverb STEALTHILY has 1 sense:

1. in a stealthy manner

  Familiarity information: STEALTHILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEALTHILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a stealthy manner

Context example:

stealthily they advanced upstream

Pertainym:

stealthy (marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed)

 Context examples 

He looked stealthily all round him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At night I repaired to Miss Mills's street, and walked up and down, until I was stealthily fetched in by Miss Mills's maid, and taken the area way to the back kitchen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and tense, alert to the multitudinous details which told a story—all but the end.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Age had warped and cracked the boards, so that when I had at last very stealthily crept my way as far as the sliding-panel, I found that I could, without any difficulty, see into the room.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared into your dressing-room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As Wolf Larsen bent down to the lower bunk to take Johnson’s pulse, I, standing erect and holding the lamp, saw Leach’s head rise stealthily as he peered over the side of his bunk to see what was going on.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Though his face was towards me, I thought, for some time, the writing being between us, that he could not see me; but looking that way more attentively, it made me uncomfortable to observe that, every now and then, his sleepless eyes would come below the writing, like two red suns, and stealthily stare at me for I dare say a whole minute at a time, during which his pen went, or pretended to go, as cleverly as ever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He saw her stealthily open the window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close to where he stood hid behind the curtain.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)