Sneak
[sniːk] or [snik]
Definition
(noun.) a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible.
(verb.) to go stealthily or furtively; '..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house'.
(verb.) put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner; 'sneak a look'; 'sneak a cigarette'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.
(imp. & p. p.) To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
(v. t.) To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.
(n.) A mean, sneaking fellow.
(n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Skulk, lurk, slink, peak, steal away, sneak off, slink away.[2]. Crouch, truckle.
n. Shirk, lurker, mean fellow.
Typist: Martha
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Slink, skulk, steal_away, lurk, cringe, crouch, truckle,[See CROSS]
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Definition
v.i. to creep or steal away privately or meanly: to behave meanly.—v.t. (slang) to steal.—n. a mean servile fellow: a mean thief.—ns. Sneak′-cup (Shak.) one who balks his glass: a cowardly insidious scoundrel; Sneak′er.—adj. Sneak′ing mean crouching: secret underhand not openly avowed.—adv. Sneak′ingly.—ns. Sneak′ingness Sneak′iness the quality of being sneaking: meanness; Sneaks′by (obs.) a sneak.—adj. Sneak′y somewhat sneaking.
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Examples
- You had a love affair all summer and got this girl with child and now I suppose you'll sneak off. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You're a philanthropic sneak. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The sneak a'n't worthy of her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak than Master Silas Brown I have seldom met with, remarked Holmes as we trudged along together. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In your employment is an under-handed sneak, named Rokesmith. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am not at all obliged to it for making me Guy Fawkes in the vault and a Sneak in the area both at once,' said Eugene. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Shall I turn coward to Lizzie, and sneak away with her, as if I were ashamed of her! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- NoI think I should have sneaked past in terror of a rebuff from Disappointment: my heart throbbed now as if I already heard the tramp of her approach. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She sneaked away when her eyes met those of Wenham, and indeed never succeeded in her designs upon the Baronet. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I have not sneaked home to rob your children, if not yourself, brother, of your rights. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sneaking in and out, so as nobody hears how you come or go! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I consider his planting one of his menial tools in the yard, an act of sneaking and sniffing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Was ever such a sneaking varmint? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Come in, you sneaking warmint; wot are you stopping outside for, as if you was ashamed of your master! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He opened the package showing the books, somewhat to the disgust of the officer, who imagined he had caught a burglar sneaking away in the dark alley with his booty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They crowd you --infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Another glance over my shoulder discovered the first eyes sneaking on me again. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Mr. Guppy sneaks away. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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