The phrase "covert relationship" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a relationship between two people that is hidden or not officially recognized. For example, "The two of them had a covert relationship for over six months before anyone noticed."
It was baked into the covert relationship.
She has channelled her outrage into as scrupulous an investigation of the covert relationship as the circumstances allow.
"There's something about an affair and a covert relationship happening under everybody's noses that almost feels like sound," Ms Russo-Young said.
In 1965, her husband, a student-body president at the University of Colorado, became an officer in the N.S.A., and, as a spouse, she was informed of the covert relationship by two former N.S.A. officials who had become C.I.A. agents.
The "dossier" in question was laid out like a serious document, or a semi-serious one, with, for example, curt diction and the last names of notable people capitalized, speculating, for example, about the role of "TRUMP's lawyer, Michael COHEN in covert relationship with Russia".
Religion and homosexuality have long enjoyed a close, if covert, relationship, but while much of the modern world has come to adopt an approach that supports an open understanding of gay and lesbian people, Anglicanism seems to have retreated from it.
(The Pentagon has established covert relationships with Kurdish, Azeri, and Baluchi tribesmen, and has encouraged their efforts to undermine the regime's authority in northern and southeastern Iran).
The bulk monitoring is carried out through direct taps into fibre optic cables and the development of covert relationships with telecommunications companies.
And the administration, backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, occupying Tripoli – with whom we have nothing in common – has been called out on its covert relationships with extremists.
Divorced Riggan is now in a semi-covert relationship with co-star Laura Andrea Riseboroughh), who wants a baby; however, she also has a Sapphic tendresse for the show's leading lady, Lesley (Naomi Watts), who must act opposite her own boyfriend, Mike Shiner, a hyperactive, narcissistic method-acting diva hilariously played by Edward Norton.
While many live by and value it, for others it has led to covert sexual relationships with adults, double lives and deep secrets.
