sneaking
adjective
acting in a furtive or underhand way.
sneakingly
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a word derived from
sneaking.
Example Sentences
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It's also, sneakingly, a more personal story – informed by Wallop's aristocratic parents and working-class in-laws.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013
And have you not lately aided privately and sneakingly my Rebel Subjects in Corsica?
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
He looked at his companion sneakingly, he looked at him admiringly, he looked at him boldly, and put up one leg on the sofa.
From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles
Crawl, krawl, v.i. to move slowly along the ground, as a worm: to creep: to move feebly, stealthily, or sneakingly: to be covered with crawling things.—n. the act of crawling.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
A fatal delay was occasioned; and the French fleet, after an ineffectual voyage, went "sneakingly home," "doing," as one of the most active Jacobites remarks, "much harm to the King, his country, and themselves."
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Thomson, Mrs.
