stealing
noun
the act of a person who steals.
stealingly
-
a word derived from
stealing.
Example Sentences
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Those letters have been stealingly copied; but, which of them, when, or by whom, is to me, as yet, an unfathomable secret.
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
So long thou stai’st, so long thou doost thee rest, So long thy loue with such things nourished Reframes, reformes it selfe and stealingly Retakes his force and rebecomes more great.
From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Mary Sidney Herbert
