In a covinous manner; with fraud, deception, or secret conspiracy.
From covinous plus the -ly suffix, forming an adverb that describes how an action is performed.
Historical legal documents use 'covinously' to describe crimes so devious they were considered especially evil—betraying someone's trust through secret agreement was worse than open dishonesty!
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