Difference between Surreptitious and Undercover

What is the difference between Surreptitious and Undercover?

Surreptitious as an adjective is stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements) while Undercover as an adjective is performed or happening in secret.

Surreptitious

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements)

Undercover

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Performed or happening in secret.Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who works undercover.

Example sentence: I love 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Days of Thunder,' so after I did 'The Skulls,' I was like, 'I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!' Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, 'Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.' They asked if I wanted to do it.

We hope you now know whether to use Surreptitious or Undercover in your sentence.

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