sneaking

[snee-king] / ˈsni kɪŋ /

ADJECTIVE

sly

Synonyms

STRONG

arch bluffing calculating conniving crooked designing dissembling intriguing mean plotting scheming slick smart smooth

WEAK

artful astute cagey canny captious covert crafty cunning deceitful deceptive delusive dishonest dishonorable double-dealing elusive foxy furtive guileful illusory impish ingenious insidious mischievous roguish secret secretive sharp shifty shrewd sneaky stealthy subtle surreptitious traitorous treacherous tricky underhand unscrupulous wily

Antonyms

STRONG

aboveboard artless honest

ADJECTIVE

stealthy

Synonyms

STRONG

skulking slinking sneak

WEAK

catlike catty clandestine covert crafty cunning enigmatic feline furtive hush-hush noiseless private secret shifty silent slinky sly sneaky sub-rosa surreptitious under wraps undercover underhand wily

Example Sentences

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One post tags Rihanna, whom she challenged "to say something to me directly instead of sneaking around like you talking to me where I'm not at."

From Barron's

Tehran’s sneaking the occasional cruise missile or drone through air defenses in the Gulf also seems unavoidable.

From The Wall Street Journal

Anyway, sneaking off was part of the deal.

From Literature

Before you envision Emily Post clutching her pearls at the thought of sneaking out without a proper goodbye, know that etiquette isn’t about rigidity—it’s all about context.

From The Wall Street Journal

At a holiday gathering in San Francisco, partygoers sipped Celsius and kept sneaking glances at their cracked-open laptops with a mix of pride and fear.

From The Wall Street Journal

sneaking

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