Sneak

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  • intransitive verb. To go or move in a quiet, stealthy way.
  • intransitive verb. To behave in a cowardly or servile manner.
  • intransitive verb. To move, give, take, or put in a quiet, stealthy manner.
  • noun. A person regarded as stealthy, cowardly, or underhanded.
  • noun. An instance of sneaking; a quiet, stealthy movement.
  • noun. A sneaker.
  • adjective. Carried out in a clandestine manner.
  • adjective. Perpetrated without warning.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To creep or steal about privately; go furtively, as if afraid or ashamed to be seen; slink.
  • To behave with meanness and servility; crouch; truckle.
  • To steal; pilfer. See sneak-thief.
  • To hide; conceal in a furtive or cowardly manner.
  • noun. A mean, contemptible fellow; one who has recourse to mean and cowardly methods; a person of selfish and cowardly temper and conduct.
  • noun. A petty thief. See sneak-thief and area-sneak.
  • noun. In cricket, a ball bowled along the ground; a grub.
  • noun. In whist, a singleton lead.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.
  • intransitive verb. To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen.
  • intransitive verb. To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
  • noun. A mean, sneaking fellow.
  • noun. A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A mean, sneaking fellow.
  • noun. An informer; a tell-tale; a grass.
  • noun. , (cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter
  • verb. To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen;
  • verb. To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
  • verb. To inform an authority about another's misdemeanours; to tell tales; to grass.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
  • adjective. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
  • verb. to go stealthily or furtively
  • verb. pass on stealthily
  • verb. make off with belongings of others
  • noun. someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
  • noun. someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
  • noun. a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
  • Word Usage
    "All of this creates an image, a picture of a regime that would want, if not to actually acquire nuclear weapons tomorrow, to be within what we call a sneak-out or breakout capacity, where once that government makes the decision to make a bomb, it can make a bomb very, very quickly."
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    cringe  
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    concealed  
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    grub  snuck  
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    sneaked  sneaking  sneaks  snuck