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Backstairs   /bˈækstˌɛrz/   Listen
Backstairs

adjective
1.
Secret and sly or sordid.  Synonyms: backstair, furtive.  "His low backstairs cunning" , "Backstairs intimacies" , "Furtive behavior"






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"Backstairs" Quotes from Famous Books



... looking at his powerful, almost stern, face, one realised that here was a man who would allow nothing to turn him from his purpose once he was convinced that he was right; a man, too, to whom anything in the way of underhand intrigue, or backstairs negotiations, would be temperamentally repugnant. The chivalrous foeman had become the most loyal ally, and an ally of whom the entire British Empire should be proud. There was nothing tortuous about the farmer turned soldier, ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton



Words linked to "Backstairs" :   stairway, backstair, furtive, plural, covert, staircase, plural form



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