Furtive vs Thievish - What's the difference?
furtive | thievish |
stealthy
Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
As adjectives the difference between furtive and thievish
is that furtive is stealthy while thievish is having a tendency to steal.furtive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.