Sneaking

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  • adjective. Acting in a stealthy, furtive way.
  • adjective. Unavowed; secret.
  • adjective. Gradually growing or persistent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or worthy of a sneak: acting like or characteristic of a sneak; mean; servile; crouching.
  • Secret or clandestine, and somewhat discreditable; underhand; hence, in a less reprehensible sense, unavowed; not openly or frankly declared.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of sneak.
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  • adjective. not openly expressed
  • Word Usage
    "If you don't believe it, explain to me what you call sneaking into a public area of citizens who are completely unguarded, with a bomb strapped to yourself, and detonating that bomb with the intent to kill and impose fear upon those people?"
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    concealed  
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