adv. [f. STEALTHY a. + -LY2.] In a stealthy manner.
1806–31. A. Knox, Rem. (1844), I. 59. They effected this, without doubt, stealthily, and to appearance, by the minutest alteration.
1837. W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, I. 261. The enemy crept stealthily along under cover of the river bank.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxiv. They went upstairs quietly, Mr. Bullock accompanying them stealthily on his creaking shoes.
1890. Bridges, Lond. Snow, Poems (1912), 265. Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying.
Comb. 1855. Kane, Arctic Expl., II. vi. 74. He appeared troubled, and had several stealthily-whispered interviews with John.
1898. F. T. Bullen, Cruise ‘Cachalot,’ xxv. (1901), 333. I was watching a few stealthily-gliding barracouta sneaking about over the plainly visible bottom.
