sneaking

[snee-king] / ˈsni kɪŋ /

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sly adj.
stealthy adj.

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

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sneaking

“I laughed about it because I was like, ‘Well, at least you were there as a parent, sneaking in your kid,’ which is honestly pretty cool,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Simon soon picks up a handheld CRT device to help with sneaking - a clever updated version of another staple of the Silent Hill series: the crackling radio.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

It’s my way of sneaking a bit of Poirot in and seeing what Miss Marple made of him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

He looked around to find the missing shoe and noticed one of the plump rodents sneaking peaks at him from behind a log.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Those workers had no idea that a fellow robot was sneaking through their underground home.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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