Definition of Covert

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Covert

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.

Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.

A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.

One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.

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Covert Quotations

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
Ralph Ellison

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
Bianca Jagger

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.
Frank Carlucci

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
Frank Church

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
Arundhati Roy

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
Arundhati Roy

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
Breyten Breytenbach

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
Cofer Black

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.
Frank Church

Covert Translations

covert in Spanish is abrigado

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