stolen glances
Secret sidelong gazes
Stolen glances are brief, furtive looks at someone or something—typically when the looker doesn't want to be caught looking.
The phrase suggests attraction or forbidden interest: They exchanged stolen glances across the crowded room.
The "stolen" implies taking something not freely given, adding a hint of secrecy or transgression to ordinary looking.
- furtiveSecretive and sly
- sidelongDirected to one side
- lingeringRemaining beyond expected duration
- secretConcealed information
- secret admirerUnknown person with feelings
longing · yearning · fleeting · covert · shy · bashful · glimmer · peek · gaze · eyes · attraction · desire · love at first sight · unspoken · forbidden · blush · moment · across
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- flirtingpickup line, wink, winking, hair flip, chat-up line
- puppy lovefirst crush, first kiss, first love, crush, crushes
- infatuationcrush, infatuation, infatuated, smitten, first love
- Romance Clicheslove at first sight, happily ever after, soulmate, true love, meant to be
- tensiontautness, tightness, strain, stiffness, rigidity
stolen glancesfixed stare
lingering gaze · fixed gaze · steady gaze · long hard look · lingering look
stolen glancescold stare
Hostile, unblinking gaze
withering look · death stare · icy glare · blank stare · vacant look
stolen, glances, glance, steals, stealing, stealer, stealers, glanced, glancing