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sneak

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1. sneak - Noun

2. sneak - Adjective

3. sneak - Verb

5. sneak - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.

To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.

A mean, sneaking fellow.

A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3-headed-dog because then no one would argue with me. Daniel Radcliffe

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. Margaret Atwood

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it! Werner Herzog

That is one trouble about trading on a large scale. You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along. Edwin Lefèvre

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think. Adam Sandler

A great man will not trample on a worm, nor sneak to an emperor. Italian Proverb

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