furtive
- Examples
I saw one of the defendants make a furtive movement. | Vi a uno de los acusados hacer un movimiento furtivo. |
Liliana made a furtive motion with one hand. | Liliana hizo un gesto furtivo con una mano. |
A furtive kiss on the campaign bus? | ¿Un beso furtivo en el autobús de campaña? |
This presence ceases to be furtive in transforming itself into a bronze icon. | Esta presencia deja de ser furtiva al transformarse en un icono de bronce. |
Nissa glanced at Chandra with furtive concern. | Nissa observó a Chandra con cierta preocupación. |
These furtive people can't do anything well. | Estas dos no pueden hacer nada bien. |
Me shyly, obliquely, trying not to be furtive. | Yo, tímida, oblicuamente, tratando de no parecer sospechoso. |
Katsu asked, following his master with a final furtive glance behind. | Preguntó Katsu, siguiendo a su señor y dando una última mirada furtiva hacia atrás. |
Added to this is furtive fishing, high temperatures and deoxygenation of the sea. | A ello se suma la pesca furtiva, las altas temperaturas y la desoxigenación del mar. |
Everything was hushed, strained, even furtive. | Todo era susurrante, tenso, furtivo incluso. |
Gabriel Ferrater, La vie furtive. | Gabriel Ferrater, La vida furtiva. |
That's a furtive movement? | ¿Eso es un movimiento furtivo? |
That's what you charge. $6,000 for your furtive glance at my junk. | Por eso es que tu cobras. 6.000$ Por tu solapado vistazo a mis porquerias. |
A furtive tear appeared in her eyes. Those festive youths she seemed like to envy. | Una furtiva lágrima de sus ojos brotó: Aquellos jóvenes fiesteros: parecían envidiar. |
Fertile and furtive Enki chose the primitive but symbolically rich emblem of the intertwined serpents. | El fértil y escurridizo Enki escogió el emblema de las serpientes entrelazadas, primitivo pero simbólicamente rico. |
This is not a new tactic, but it is no less furtive or reprehensible for that. | Esta no es una táctica nueva, pero no por ello resulta menos furtiva y reprensible. |
He looked round him with a furtive and stealthy air, as one who dreads pursuit. | El chiquillo miró a su alrededor con aire furtivo y cauteloso, como alguien que teme ser perseguido. |
The so-called hand-off of sovereignty this week was a furtive ritual that was far more symbolic than substantive. | La llamada entrega de la soberanía esta semana fue un ritual furtivo, mucho más simbólico que sustantivo. |
Singing males perch conspicuously, otherwise furtive, running around on the ground in search of insects. | Al cantar los machos se perchan visiblemente, de lo contrario sigilosos, corriendo por el suelo en busca de insectos. |
In addition, the furtive hunter has four external points of carrying being able to support 2.500 kg each one. | Por añadidura, el cazador furtivo posee cuatro puntos de carga externos que pueden soportar 2.500 kg cada uno. |
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