Crossword clues for sneaking
sneaking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International 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.
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.]
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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.
You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
--Dryden. To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who sneaks. vb. (present participle of sneak English)
WordNet
adj. not openly expressed; "a sneaking suspicion" [syn: sneaking(a), unavowed]
Usage examples of "sneaking".
And there are always profiteers exploiting loopholes, sneaking adware materials onto private property and then wrapping themselves up in the law.
And did I get that tin out in a hurry - and I felt awful, Asey, sneaking about with it!
It was she who had started sneaking cucumbers into their room, where they had all laughingly practiced the act they so avidly watched.
While I was getting them I heard somebody sneaking up outside, and saw a black man coming toward the doorway.
Pretty soon Dorry whispered for me to look, and he pointed to a dark thing kind of sneaking away.
Don Gately was in the very early part of his Ennet House residency he almost got discharged for teaming up with a bad-news methedrine addict from New Bedford and sneaking out after curfew across the E.
Substituting monkshood or mandrake or some other root for eryngo in that manner would be far easier than sneaking in and sprinkling the powdered leaves of some poisonous plant into the finished pie.
The Fam spent most of her time with Straif, demanding petting, curling to nap on his lap when he worked in his ResidenceDen, sometimes sneaking into the bed during the middle of the night and sleeping next to Straif.
They had been trying nights, sneaking around outside the Evans estate, secretly observing the beastly Gangrel that had shown up.
It must be some of those hobbledehoys from the village sneaking about to see what they could thieve .
English zits from Heathrow on, and I was developing a hunchy slouch, the way tall girls get, from sneaking past mirrors.
He frowned down at the naked, jewelless fingers he extended to the scanty heat and clamped his jaw tightly together, hating the anonymity, the hiding, the secretiveness of sneaking into his own country in the guise of a pauper in order to see his friends and supporters.
Sneaking to another corner of the library, Jute picked a large volume from a bound set of prison records.
His biggest rebellion, that I know of, was sneaking junk food, and Keelie knew about it anyway.
They gave pictures like kinescopes of old fifties black-and-white television shows, but were good enough to see anybody coming down the road and might even show someone sneaking through the woods, if anybody got that bold.