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sneakingadjective given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentionsnever let one of those sneaking salespeople into your house furtive, shady, shifty, slippery, sly, sneaky, stealthy artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, wilyclose, closemouthed, reticent, secretiveclandestine, covert, darkdeceitful, deceiving, deceptive, devious, duplicitous, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhandedcheating, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, knavish, two-facedlying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthfulinsidious, perfidious, serpentine, treacherous aboveboard, forthright, plainspoken, straightforwardcandid, direct, foursquare, frank, open, plainhonest, trustworthy, truthful undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by othersharbored a sneaking admiration for his chief business rival backstairs, behind-the-scenes, clandestine, covert, furtive, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, private, privy, secret, sneak, sneaky, stealth, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded back-channel, closed-door, off-the-books, off-the-recordclassified, confidential, restricted, top secret, undisclosedconcealed, hidden, secreted, subterranean, unadvertised, unexposed open, overt, public acknowledged, avowedaboveboard, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguisedunclassified, unrestrictedclear, evident, manifest, obvious, patent, plain arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgusta sneaking two-timer who has completely lost his wife's trust cheap, contemptible, cruddy, deplorable, despicable, dirty, grubby, lame, lousy, mean, nasty, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, ratty, scabby, scummy, scurvy, sorry, wretched abhorrent, abominable, condemnable, detestable, execrable, hateful, loathsome, odiousdisgusting, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, revulsivediscreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, ignominious, shamefulbase, ignoble, low, shabby, sordid, squalid, vileblamable, censurable, reprehensible, reproachablecowardly, craven, dastardlyunethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous admirable, commendable, creditable, laudable, meritorious, praiseworthy high-minded, honest, honorable, noble, principled, redoubtable, reputable, right-minded, scrupulous, uprightethical, good, moral, right, righteous, virtuous sneakingverbpresent participle of sneakto move about in a sly or secret mannerthe little kids sneak around upstairs when they're supposed to be in bed lurking, mooching, mousing, pussyfooting, shirking, skulking, sliding, slinking, slipping, snaking, stealing crawling, creeping, edging, inching, wormingghosting, padding, tiptoeing to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever waysneak the topic into the conversation any way you can infiltrating, insinuating, slipping, winding, working in, worming, wriggling creeping, edging, wigglinginserting, interpolating, interposing, introducing in 1582 |