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Sneaking definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SNE'AKING, ppr.
1. Creeping away slily; stealing away.
2. a. Mean; servile; crouching.
3. Meanly parsimonious; covetous; niggardly.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

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 sneaking suspicion> • sneakingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sneak Sneak (sn[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sneaked (sn[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Sneaking.] [OE. sniken, AS. sn[=i]can to creep; akin to Dan. snige sig; cf. Icel. sn[=i]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.

Webster's 1913 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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... ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Servile, slavish, cringing, obsequious, fawning, grovelling, truckling, crouching, mean, low, base, abject, vile, beggarly, time-serving. 2. Secret, underhand, clandestine, concealed, hidden, covert, sly.

Moby Thesaurus

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