sneaking

sneaking
    adj 1: not openly expressed; "a sneaking suspicion" [syn:
           {sneaking(a)}, {unavowed}]
    

Sneak \Sneak\ (sn[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sneaked}
   (sn[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sneaking}.] [OE. sniken, AS.
   sn[imac]can to creep; akin to Dan. snige sig; cf. Icel.
   sn[imac]kja to hanker after.]
   1. 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.
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            You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with
      meanness and servility; to crouch.
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Sneaking \Sneak"ing\, a.
   Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and
   courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- {Sneak"ing*ly}, adv.
   -- {Sneak"ing*ness}, n.
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85 Moby Thesaurus words for "sneaking":
      all fours, back-door, backstairs, clandestine, covert, cowering,
      crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, cringing, deep-rooted,
      deep-seated, devious, doggo, duplicitous, feline, furtive,
      guileful, gumshoeing, gut, hidden, hidden out, hidlings,
      hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings,
      indirect, inherent, innate, intuitive, lingering, lurking, nagging,
      niggling, nightwalking, on tiptoe, padding, persistent, private,
      privy, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, pussyfooting, quailing,
      quiet, scrabble, scramble, secret, shifty, sidling, skulking,
      slinking, slinky, sly, snaking, sneaky, stealing, stealthy,
      suppressed, surreptitious, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, undeclared,
      under cover, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover,
      underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, undivulged,
      unexpressed, unobtrusive, unrevealed, unvoiced, waiting concealed,
      worming, worrisome, worrying