sneaking

Speech parts

1. sneaking - Noun

2. sneaking - Adjective

3. sneaking - Verb

5. sneaking - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Sneak

Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unavowed craven private base slip shifty slink secret yellow hidden covert clandestine stealth crawl slipping
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Antonyms

great open clear BIG apparent patent
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Phrases with the word

have a sneaking suspicion be sneaking sneaking parts been sneaking

Examples

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. Dag Hammarskjöld

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge. Boris Johnson

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban? Ann Coulter

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind. John Mayer

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.) Larry Wall

Close letter words and terms

sneakery sneakily sneakiness sneaking around sneaking in sneaking parts