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Sneaking   /snˈikɪŋ/   Listen
Sneaking

adjective
1.
Not openly expressed.  Synonym: unavowed.


Sneak

verb
(past & past part. sneaked or snuk; pres. part. sneaking)
1.
To go stealthily or furtively.  Synonyms: creep, mouse, pussyfoot.
2.
Put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner.  "Sneak a cigarette"
3.
Make off with belongings of others.  Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe.
4.
Pass on stealthily.  Synonym: slip.



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"Sneaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... one enemy, sneaking through the trade with his lying tongue, always under cover, doing his utmost to injure me. Had that man forgotten the day in 1888 when he came to my office and told me he would be ruined unless our London friends would accept a compromise from him and asked ...
— The Romance and Tragedy • William Ingraham Russell
... nature, are fattened for food. They are supposed to be descendant from the wolf, and retain something of his savage but cowardly temper, howling rather than barking; showing their teeth and snarling on the slightest provocation, but sneaking away on ...
— Astoria - Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains • Washington Irving
... long—perhaps five minutes—before a man showed himself outside the gate, like a spectre dodging this and that way in response to unearthly impulse. Once or twice he started forward, as if on the point of sneaking in, but thought better of it and retreated. Once his attitude suggested that he might be taking aim with a pistol; but if that was so, he chose not to waste a shot or start an alarm by firing at a mark he couldn't see. What he did accomplish ...
— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy
... canyon and have the caves for our play-houses. Minervy could have the secret cave away up the hill, and I'd have the other one across from it; and we'd have flags and wigwag messages like daddy tells about in the war. And we'd play the rabbits are Injuns, and the coyotes are big-Injun-chiefs sneaking down to see if the forts are watching. And whichever seen a coyote first would wigwag to the other one..." A baby trout, taking advantage of the pail tipping in the current, gave a flip over the edge and interrupted Billy Louise's fancies. She gave the pail a tilt and spilled out the ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
... believe it, but I fear it just enough to be made uneasy. The evil eye, for instance. How can one spend any time in Italy, where everybody goes loaded with charms against it, and help having a sort of sneaking half-belief in ...
— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland


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