Illustration: In a family kitchen, a child crouches below the counter and cautiously lifts the lid of a biscuit tin with two fingertips. One hand reaches inside while the child's eyes remain fixed on a parent washing vegetables with their back turned.

こそこそ

kosokoso

secretly, on the sly

Example sentences

さっきから何なにを二人ににんでこそこそやってるの？
What have you two been secretly up to?
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影かげでこそこそせず面めんと向むかって彼かれにそれを言いいたまえ。
Say it to his face, not behind his back.
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弟おとうとは私わたしに隠かくれてこそこそゲームをしていた。
My younger brother was secretly playing games without me knowing.
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