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  • adverb In a concealing manner.

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Examples

  • You are swinging free, dangerously but concealingly near the pulsar.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: A Circus Of Hells - Poul Anderson Blue Tyson 2008

  • You are swinging free, dangerously but concealingly near the pulsar.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • The carabinieri had washed some of the blood from his face, brushed him and set his hat concealingly upon his head.

    Tender is the Night 2003

  • Lydia, the bardling's cloak draped not quite concealingly about herself and her scanty garb, was clinging to his arm, giggling all too convincingly as he signed the register and tried to act as though "Estban Eitar" checked into inns with attractive older women all the time.

    Castle Of Deception Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • She unbound her hair, letting the rank mass fall about her face concealingly.

    DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968

  • Removing half a dozen coats that hung concealingly massed in the place, he almost uttered an exclamation of delight.

    A Husband by Proxy Jack Steele

  • The fledglings are concealingly colored, and crouch motionless, so as to escape notice from possible enemies; and the eggs, while they do not in color harmonize with the surroundings to the extent that they might artificially be made to do, yet easily escape the eye when laid on a beach composed of broken sea-shells.

    X. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi 1916

  • Hazel was sitting now with her face entirely turned away, and the soft hair blowing concealingly about her burning cheeks.

    The Man of the Desert Grace Livingston Hill 1906

  • And putting back from her face the long, brown, thick hair which the action of the water had swirled concealingly across it, he had added: “I do declare, Joe!

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • "You are swinging free, dangerously but concealingly near the pulsar.

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

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