What does secretly mean?
Secretly means In secret, covertly..
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/ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/ · adverb
In secret, covertly..
Mary cheated secretly in the test, and never got caught.
Sometimes her prose hyperventilates ("Once, years ago, his and N.'s love for each other had glowed like phosphorescent fire on the surfaces of their bodies"), and she has a weakness for epiphanies ("There was a man, no longer young, though not yet old, who, traveling alone in northern Europe, began to feel that his soul was being drained slowly, almost secretly from him, drop by drop").
Use secretly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Secretly means In secret, covertly..
Common synonyms include on the qt, in secret.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Mary cheated secretly in the test, and never got caught.
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