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ˈsni kɪŋsneak·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sneaking(a), unavowedadjective

    not openly expressed

    "a sneaking suspicion"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sneakingparticipial adj.

    Etymology: from sneak.

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  1. sneaking

    Sneaking is the act of moving or behaving in a cautious, secretive, or stealthy manner, typically with the intention of avoiding notice or detection, due to not wanting to disturb others or because of trying to do something considered wrong or against the rules.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sneaking

    of Sneak

  2. Sneakingadjective

    marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sneaking in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sneaking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Sneaking in a Sentence

  1. Joe Biden:

    Youve got Jim Crow sneaking back in, you know what happens when you have an equal right to vote? They lose.

  2. Don Wells:

    We’ve had several people sneaking around there, but we’ve had them sneaking around at night, we’ve never had somebody up there at 5:30 in the afternoon that we know of. They didn’t come up the driveway. They came up a dog trail from the woods. The [police K-9] dog that they used, that’s where the scent took them. Down through the woods, not the driveway. At Ben Hill Road is where the dog’s scent ended.

  3. John Bunyan:

    Faithful: What! why he (Shame) objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscious was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie himself up from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times.”

  4. Linda Barto:

    He has been lying to me about everything for all of the 52 years I have known him. ... He spent his whole sinister life lying and sneaking around, so he could carry on his abuse uninterrupted.

  5. Devin Nunes:

    I needed a place I could go and find this information and review it … There was no sneaking around.

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