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sneaking

[snee-king]

adjective

  1. acting in a furtive or underhand way.

  2. deceitfully underhand, as actions; contemptible.

  3. secret; not generally avowed, as a feeling, notion, suspicion, etc.



sneaking

/ ˈԾːɪŋ /

adjective

  1. acting in a furtive or cowardly way

  2. secret

    a sneaking desire to marry a millionaire

  3. slight but nagging (esp in the phrase a sneaking suspicion )

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • sneakingly adverb
  • sneakingness noun
  • unsneaking adjective
  • ˈԱ𲹰쾱Բ adverb
  • ˈԱ𲹰쾱ԲԱ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sneaking1

First recorded in 1575–85; sneak + -ing 2
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Example Sentences

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Now it’s basically my husband’s and my way of sneaking out of the house.

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When I was playing rugby for Gloucester, I was also sneaking home on the weekends and playing football.

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So she knows what it’s like to be kosher, and I guess it’d be a good excuse for sneaking in food to the movie theater.

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Plus, hounding bears in the woods would have no impact on the bears knocking over neighborhood trash cans and sneaking into ice cream stores.

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“Actually, this is one of the bars I started sneaking into,” he laughs.

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