sneaking

  • 11sneaking — adjective 1) she had a sneaking admiration for him Syn: secret, private, hidden, concealed, unvoiced, undisclosed, undeclared, unavowed 2) a sneaking feeling Syn: niggling, nagging, lurking …

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  • 12sneaking — adjective 1) a sneaking admiration for him Syn: secret, private, hidden, concealed, unvoiced 2) a sneaking feeling Syn: niggling, nagging, lurking, insidious, lingering, persistent …

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  • 13Sneaking — Sneak Sneak (sn[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sneaked} (sn[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sneaking}.] [OE. sniken, AS. sn[=i]can to creep; akin to Dan. snige sig; cf. Icel. sn[=i]kja to hanker after.] 1. To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to… …

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  • 14sneaking — adj. Sneaking is used with these nouns: ↑admiration, ↑feeling, ↑suspicion …

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  • 15sneaking — sneak·ing || snɪːkɪŋ adj. furtive, underhanded; mean, contemptible; deceitful; secret; sly n. act of creeping, act of moving stealthily or furtively snɪːk n. one who acts in a shifty and underhanded manner, base or contemptible person;… …

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  • 16sneaking — [ˈsniːkɪŋ] adj a sneaking feeling is one that you are not sure about or do not want to have …

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  • 17sneaking — adjective not openly expressed a sneaking suspicion • Syn: ↑unavowed • Similar to: ↑concealed …

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  • 18sneaking suspicion — noun A premonition, or hunch. A belief based on very little evidence. I have the sneaking suspicion that he has already taken a decision about this …

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  • 19sneaking — sneakingly, adv. sneakingness, n. /snee king/, adj. 1. acting in a furtive or underhand way. 2. deceitfully underhand, as actions; contemptible. 3. secret; not generally avowed, as a feeling, notion, suspicion, etc. [1575 85; SNEAK + ING2] * * * …

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  • 20sneaking — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

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