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

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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 • Mar. 25, 2026

In one post on X, Ortiz wrote: "Are you there? ... say something to me directly instead of sneaking around like you talking to me where I'm not at."

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

To the uninitiated, though, even amid steady laughter and a sneaking concern for this silly friendship to right itself, it may come off as much ado about who knows what.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

But I have a sneaking suspicion, Solitary Gourmet, that you have all of this in the bag.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

He was ready to say sheepishly, “I guess I didn’t do such a great job of sneaking out. I guess the guards saw me, after all.”

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

sneaking

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