SNEAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sneaking mean? 

• SNEAKING (adjective)
  The adjective SNEAKING has 1 sense:

1. not openly expressed

  Familiarity information: SNEAKING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNEAKING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not openly expressed

Synonyms:

sneaking; unavowed

Context example:

a sneaking suspicion

Similar:

concealed (hidden on any grounds for any motive)

 Context examples 

It is so altogether different that I am almost afraid of it, and yet I've a sneaking idea it is good.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I dared commit no fault: I strove to fulfil every duty; and I was termed naughty and tiresome, sullen and sneaking, from morning to noon, and from noon to night.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Nevertheless he felt a little prick of ambition, a sneaking desire to have another battle with that ptarmigan hen—only the hawk had carried her away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The suspicion that she laughed too, when she said it, preyed upon my mind all the time I was dressing; and gave me, I was conscious, a sneaking and guilty air when I passed her on the staircase, as I was going down to breakfast.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Laurie came sneaking into the kitchen of the Dovecote one Saturday, with an excited face, and was received with the clash of cymbals, for Hannah clapped her hands with a saucepan in one and the cover in the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yes; he did not stay many minutes in the house: Missis was very high with him; she called him afterwards a 'sneaking tradesman.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"That is for your impudence in answering mama awhile since," said he, "and for your sneaking way of getting behind curtains, and for the look you had in your eyes two minutes since, you rat!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)