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secret admirer
[see-krit ad-mahyuhr-er]
noun
a person who is romantically attracted to someone else but shows it only in a way that does not reveal their own identity, as by sending anonymous gifts or messages.
I found an unsigned valentine on my desk from a secret admirer.
a person who esteems or has a high opinion of someone or something but hides this fact from others.
Only after his death, when his diaries were discovered, did we learn that he was a secret admirer of opera.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of secret admirer1
Example Sentences
The thief wasn’t a Secret Admirer.
The first character: the Secret Admirer.
The idea of the infatuated Secret Admirer loomed large throughout the investigation.
The scale of the theft was a job for a Consummate Professional, not a Secret Admirer or a Lone Madman.
The German young man arrested early in the investigation—the Louvre visitor who’d been a little too interested in the Mona Lisa—was a classic Secret Admirer type.
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