sneaking

sneaking
Synonyms and related words:
all fours, back-door, backstairs, clandestine, covert, cowering, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, cringing, deep-rooted, deep-seated, devious, doggo, duplicitous, feline, furtive, guileful, gumshoeing, gut, hidden, hidden out, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, indirect, inherent, innate, intuitive, lingering, lurking, nagging, niggling, nightwalking, on tiptoe, padding, persistent, private, privy, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, pussyfooting, quailing, quiet, scrabble, scramble, secret, shifty, sidling, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, snaking, sneaky, stealing, stealthy, suppressed, surreptitious, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, undeclared, under cover, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, undivulged, unexpressed, unobtrusive, unrevealed, unvoiced, waiting concealed, worming, worrisome, worrying

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  • sneaking — [snē′kiŋ] adj. 1. cowardly, stealthy, underhanded, or furtive [a sneaking manner] 2. not admitted or made known to others; secret [a sneaking fondness for candy] 3. slight, or slight but increasing [a sneaking suspicion] sneakingly adv …   English World dictionary

  • Sneaking — Sneak ing, a. Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. {Sneak ing*ly}, adv. {Sneak ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sneaking — index clandestine, devious, furtive, machiavellian, perfidious, recreant, sly, stealthy Burton s Legal Thesaur …   Law dictionary

  • sneaking — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a feeling) persistent in one s mind but reluctantly held; nagging …   English terms dictionary

  • sneaking — sneak|ing [ snikıŋ ] adjective BRITISH a sneaking feeling is one that you are not sure about or do not want to have: a sneaking admiration/respect for someone: I have always had a sneaking admiration for him. a sneaking suspicion/feeling: I had a …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • sneaking — UK [ˈsniːkɪŋ] / US [ˈsnɪkɪŋ] adjective a sneaking feeling is one that you are not sure about or do not want to have a sneaking admiration/respect for someone: I have always had a sneaking admiration for him. a sneaking suspicion/fear/feeling: I… …   English dictionary

  • sneaking — sneak|ing [ˈsni:kıŋ] adj have a sneaking feeling/suspicion/admiration to have a feeling about something or someone, but to not say anything about it because you are not sure or you might be embarrassed ▪ I always had a sneaking admiration for him …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • sneaking — [[t]sni͟ːkɪŋ[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n A sneaking feeling is a slight or vague feeling, especially one that you are unwilling to accept. I have a sneaking suspicion that they are going to succeed... I ve always had this sneaking admiration for him …   English dictionary

  • sneaking — adjective 1 have a sneaking admiration/affection etc for to have a secret feeling of admiration etc for someone 2 have a sneaking suspicion/feeling (that) to have a slight feeling that someone has done something wrong without being sure: I have a …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • sneaking — adjective Date: 1582 1. mean, contemptible 2. characteristic of a sneak ; furtive, underhanded 3. a. not openly expressed or acknowledged < a sneaking respect for culture H. A. Burton > b. that is a persistent conjecture < a …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • sneaking — adjective 1) she had a sneaking admiration for him Syn: secret, private, hidden, concealed, unvoiced, undisclosed, undeclared, unavowed 2) a sneaking feeling Syn: niggling, nagging, lurking …   Thesaurus of popular words

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