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sneaking
adjective as in sly
Strong matches
Weak matches
- 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
Example Sentences
Caught sneaking away to the bathroom mid-confession, he apologizes with: “Sorry ‘boot that.”
The Christmas tree cutting program began in the 1950s, when rangers began noticing that people were sneaking into national forests and cutting trees — sometimes even selling them to the public.
Gratitude has a funny way of sneaking in, even when you’re not paying attention.
“Don’t,” blurted her mother, Rebecca Marriott, who laughed along with everyone else, but kept sneaking anxious peeks at her watch.
Yet as I made my way through the sixth and seventh seasons of the Emmy-winning NBC drama, I began to have a sneaking suspicion that I was watching these episodes for the first time.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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