Hole-and-corner

Definitions: Hole-and-corner

Hole-and-corner

Adjective

1. Relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life; "a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells.

2. Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hole-and-corner

Crosswords: Hole-and-corner

To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

nën dorë (under the rose), i fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, insidious, internal, latent, occult, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, veiled). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, seedy, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), таен (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, confidential, cryptic, dark, darkling, esoteric, hugger mugger, hush hush, inside, mystic, occult, private, privy, recondite, secret, sensitive, sneaking, snug, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand). (various references)

Czech

tajný (clandestine, classified, confidential, furtive, inward, occult, privy, restricted, retired, secret, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unspoken). (various references)

Dutch

warboel (chaos, hole-and-corner dealings, tangle, underhand dealings), puinhoop (garbage dump, hole-and-corner dealings, ruin, underhand dealings). (various references)

Finnish

huijaus (cheating, fraud in mortgage dealings, hole-and-corner dealings, spoofing, swindle, swindling, underhand dealings). (various references)

French

gabegie (hole-and-corner dealings). (various references)

German

zwielichtig (seedy, shady, shiftily, shifty, unsavory, unsavoury), obskur (dubious, obscure, suspect). (various references)

Hungarian

titkos (clandestine, classified, confidential, covert, cryptic, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hugger mugger, hugger-mugger, hush hush, inner, lurky, mystic, occult, privy, secret, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, top secret, undercover). (various references)

Italian

sperpero (hole-and-corner dealings, underhand dealings), imbroglio (brail, buntline, cheat, entanglement, fix, flam, fraud, hanky panky, hole-and-corner dealings, imbroglio, kid, maze, racket, scrape, swindle, swindling, tangle, underhand dealings, victimisation, victimization, wangle). (various references)

Pig Latin

ole-and-cornerhay

Portuguese

meter num buraco. (various references)

Romanian

afacere pe sub mânã (a hole-and-corner transaction). (various references)

Russian 

тайный (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, cryptic, dark, esoteric, furtive, hugger mugger, offscreen, private, privy, quiet, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, under the table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skriven (cachectic, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, secret, sly, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious), ispod žita (wrap: under wraps). (various references)

Spanish

furtivo (furtive, sly, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy). (various references)

Swedish

hemlig (arcane, blind, clandestine, close, concealed, confidential, covert, furtive, occult, offscreen, privy, quiet, secret, secretly, sneaking, surreptitious, under cover, underground, underhand, underhanded). (various references)

Thai

อย่างลับๆ (hole-in-the-corner). (various references)

Turkish

sinsi (cattish, catty, furtive, gloating, insidious, slinky, sly, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, underarm, underhand), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), el altından (by devious means, by stealth, clandestine, clandestinely, in secret, on the sly, secretly, slily, sub rosa, surreptitious, under the counter, under the rose, undercover, underhand, underhanded). (various references)

Ukranian 

секретний (back room, classified, confidential, hush hush, private, privy, secret, sensitive, subterraneous, underhand, underneath), та�"мний (arcane, back door, backstairs, clandestine, close, closet, colorable, colourable, covert, cryptic, esoteric, hideaway, hugger mugger, hush hush, invisible, mystic, occult, occulted, offscreen, private, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lén lút (backstairs, hedge, rose, sideling, sneaking, sneaky, stealth, stealthy, surreptitious). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: channeled, channeler, chlordane, colonnade, noncareer, nonreader, olecranon, rechannel, recolored.

-5 letters: anchored, calender, canoodle, chaldron, chandler, chlordan, coholder, colander, coleader, condoler, condoner, conelrad, cornered, declarer, dehorner, drencher, enhaloed, enhanced, enhancer, hardcore, hardener, honorand, larcener, oleander, ordnance, ranchero, rancored, recoaled, rehandle, reharden, reloader, reloaned.

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