Though there was nobody else in the street, he looked over his shoulder in the old, furtive way.

In a furtive indirect way the practice of tipping was coming back.

Under different circumstances I might have volunteered to try, and not in a furtive way.

They kept to the back of the crowd, hugging the wall in an almost furtive way.

The furtive way she picked up something from the floor of that room last night, for instance.

He did it in the furtive way of a person ashamed of himself.

What contacts he had with France regarding the political situation were made in a furtive way.

That guy was up to something, you could tell by the furtive way he moved.

The newcomers caught the mood of the interior, though, and began moving in that furtive way.

If he had not done so, but chosen this furtive way, it must mean something different.