sneaking

4 definitions found

sneaking - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sneak \Sneak\ (sn[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sneaked
     (sn[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Sneaking.] [OE. sniken, AS.
     sn[imac]can to creep; akin to Dan. snige sig; cf. Icel.
     sn[imac]kja to hanker after.]
     1. To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go
        meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to
        sneak away from company.
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              You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with
        meanness and servility; to crouch.
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  Sneaking \Sneak"ing\, a.
     Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and
     courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv.
     -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
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sneaking - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sneaking
      adj 1: not openly expressed; "a sneaking suspicion" [syn:
             sneaking(a), unavowed]

sneaking - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "sneaking":
     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