sneakingn.
/ˈsniːkɪŋ/ The action of the verb in various senses. Also with prepositions and adverbs.
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun]
fawninga1350
submission?a1439
overlowness1496
servility1573
servilenessa1594
obsequency1595
obsequiousness1613
cringing1617
slavishnessa1620
vernility1623
servulating1637
suppleness1638
sneakinga1657
subserviency1669
fawningness1672
subservience1680
cringingness1695
truckling1820
obsequience1830
flunkeyism1831
servilism1831
spanielship1832
toadyism1840
flunkeydom1850
oleaginousness1853
vassalism1854
toadying1863
grovel1892
obsequity1892
crawlsomeness1900
serfishness1906
oleosity?1920
ass-kissing1936
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > moving softly or stealthily
skulking1297
stealing1581
sneakinga1657
stealthing1955
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > [noun]
stalkingc1000
creeping1565
hedge-creeping1579
stealing1581
steal1590
stealth1600
insinuation1608
slinking1611
sneakinga1657
prowl1803
creep1818
sneak1819
lurk1829
slink1853
pussyfooting1956
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cxliv, in Poems (1878) III. 173 But sneaking smells of Peasant, though they weare Blue Ribbands.
1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 45, in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) He built a house without his Camp for all strangerthat arrived,..whereby he prevented their sneaking into his Camp.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 217 By his Sneaking and Cringing.
1772 T. Simpson Compl. Vermin-killer 20 They appear shy, but that is from your sneaking after them.
1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 441 An assiduity..which sometimes almost verges towards sneaking.
1895 Outing 26 403/2 By hard sneaking it was possible to get within about two hundred and fifty yards.
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sneakingadj.
/ˈsniːkɪŋ/ 1. in combination.1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life I. 292 The same sneaking~looking animal, whether you meet with it in a palace or a jail.† b. sneaking-budge n. one who steals or robs alone; also (quots. 1743 –1752), stealing, pilfering. Obsolete.† c. Niggardly, mean, near. Obsolete.in extended use.1697 T. Tryon Way to Health vi. 116 How many stingy sneaking Names will they call us?
a. That sneaks; moving, walking, acting, etc., in a furtive or slinking manner. Also transferred.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective]
privyc1230
thiefly1395
stalkinga1400
slyc1440
insidious1545
clanculary1563
hedge-creeping1579
thievish1587
sneaking1590
tiptoe1593
peaking1595
underworking1605
stealthya1616
subtlea1616
surreptitious?1615
clancular1621
stealthful?1624
insidiary1625
worming1631
subterranean1643
clancularious1656
hugger-mugger1692
slink1792
slinking1841
instealing1844
thief-like1847
furtive1859
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > [adjective]
creepinga1400
slyc1440
prowling1546
stealing1574
sneaking1590
cat-footed1598
soft-footed1603
surrepent1608
cat-likea1616
stealthya1616
grassant1659
sliving1661
creep-mouse1766
secret1768
slinking1841
pussy-footed1893
undercreeping1893
pussyfooting1926
slinky1951
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. G4 He is such a sneaking fellowe, that..touch him and he will scrike.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller (new ed.) sig. B3 They will..call him a sneaking [(ed. 1) sweating] Eauesdropper.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 71 Where is then the anarchy, the sneaking oligarchy?
1673 A. Walker Leez Lachrymans 26 He had a great mans mind, not a little sneeking, servile, narrow, soul.
1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 34 Authoriz'd to be printed by our sneaking Vicechanc[ellor].
1726 J. Dyer Misc. Poems 52 The sneaking tribe of Flattery.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 227 Lurking footpads and sneaking pickpockets.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiii. 115 A nasty, ungrateful, pig-headed, brutish, obstinate, sneaking dog.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 99 Several of these sneaking beasts [coyotes] were prowling round.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun]
micherya1393
mitchinga1393
picking1402
purloining1417
pilferc1425
pickery1460
pilfering1548
filching1567
lurching1570
pilfery1573
petty larceny1578
filching-tradea1592
prigging1591
filchery1607
nimming1607
sneaking-budge1699
pilferage1732
cabbaging1774
weeding1819
pilferment1823
crib1855
filch1877
souveniring1919
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > who works alone
sneaking-budge1699
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. viii, in Misc. III. 53 Wild..looked upon borrowing to be as good a Way of taking as any, and as he called it, the genteelest Kind of Sneaking-Budge.
1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. iii. 19 I find you are some sneaking Budge Rascal.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective]
gnedec900
gripplea1000
fastOE
narrow-hearteda1200
narrow?c1225
straitc1290
chinchc1300
nithinga1325
scarcec1330
clama1340
hard1340
scantc1366
sparingc1386
niggardc1400
chinchy?1406
retentivea1450
niggardousa1492
niggish1519
unliberal1533
pinching1548
dry1552
nigh1555
niggardly1560
churlish1566
squeamish1566
niggardish1567
niggard-like1567
holding1569
spare1577
handfast1578
envious1580
close-handed1585
hard-handed1587
curmudgeonly1590
parsimonious?1591
costive1594
hidebound1598
penny-pinching1600
penurious1600
strait-handed1600
club-fisted1601
dry-fisted1604
fast-handed1605
fast-fingered1607
close-fisted1608
near1611
scanting1613
carkingc1620
illiberal1623
clutch-fisteda1634
hideboundeda1640
clutch-fista1643
clunch-fisted1644
unbounteous1645
hard-fisted1646
purse-bound1652
close1654
stingy1659
tenacious1676
scanty1692
sneaking1696
gripe-handed1698
narrow-souled1699
niggardling1704
snippy1727
unindulgent1742
shabby1766
neargoinga1774
cheesemongering1781
split-farthing1787
save-all1788
picked1790
iron-fisted1794
unhandsome1800
scaly1803
nearbegoing1805
tight1805
nippit1808
nipcheese1819
cumin-splitting1822
partan-handed1823
scrimping1823
scrumptious1823
scrimpy1825
meanly1827
skinny1833
pinchfisted1837
mean1840
tight-fisted1843
screwy1844
stinty1849
cheeseparing1857
skinflinty1886
mouly1904
mingy1911
cheapskate1912
picey1937
tight-assed1961
chintzy1964
tightwad1976
1696 W. Mountague Delights Holland Pref. 2 We were not Sneaking..but thriftily Liberal.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. iii. 21 He had some few Blemishes.., yet being a sneaking or a niggardly Fellow, was not one of them. View more context for this quotation
1776 S. Foote Bankrupt iii. 68 No gentleman can accuse me of being sneaking. Dingey, give him six pence.
2. Marked or characterized by, partaking or suggestive of, sneaking; hence, mean, contemptible.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible
unworthc893
unwrastc893
littleOE
narrow-hearteda1200
wretcha1200
unworthya1240
wretchedc1250
un-i-wrastc1275
bad1276
lechera1300
feeblea1325
despisablea1340
villain1340
contemptiblec1384
lousyc1386
caitiff1393
brothelyc1400
roinousa1425
poor1425
sevenpennyc1475
nasty1477
peakish1519
filthy1533
despectuous1541
beggary1542
scald1542
shitten?1545
disdainfula1547
contemptuous1549
despicable1553
skit-brained?1553
contemniblea1555
vile1560
sluttish1561
queer1567
scornful1570
scallardc1575
tinkerly?1576
worthless1576
beggarly?1577
paltry1578
halfpenny1579
dog bolt1580
pitiful1582
sneaking1582
triobolar1585
wormisha1586
baddy1586
dudgeon1592
measled1596
packstaff1598
roguey1598
roguish1601
contemptful1608
grovelling1608
lightly1608
disdainable1611
purulent1611
snotty-nose1622
vilipendious1630
cittern-headed1638
wormy1640
pissabed1643
triobolary1644
disparageable1648
blue-bellied1652
unestimable1656
scullion1658
piteous1667
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
snotty1681
snotty-nosed1682
mucky1683
bollocky1694
scoundrel1700
scaldeda1704
sneaking1703
ficulnean1716
unsolid1731
pitiable1753
scrubby1754
inimitable1798
scrubbish1798
worm-likea1807
small1824
lowlife1827
ketty1828
skunkish1831
yellow-bellied1833
scaly1843
cockroachya1845
wutless1853
nigger1859
trashy1862
low-down1872
cruddy1877
shitty1879
tinhorn1886
blithering1889
motherfucking1890
snidey1890
pilgarlicky1894
shitass1895
shoddy1918
yah boo1921
bitching1929
shit-faced1932
turdish1936
fricking1937
jerk-off1937
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
snot-nosed1941
jerky1944
mother-loving1948
scroungy1948
fecking1952
pissant1952
shit-kicking1953
shit-eating1956
bumboclaat1957
rassclaat1957
shit-headed1959
farkakte1960
shithouse1966
daggy1967
dipshit1968
scuzzy1969
bloodclaat1971
bitch ass1972
wanky1972
streelish1974
twatty1975
twattish1976
dweeby1988
douchey1991
wank1991
cockish1996
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sneakiness > sneaky person > [adjective]
sneaking1582
makeshift1592
glibbery1601
meeching1616
sneaky1834
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > underhand or sneaky
subornate1548
sneaking1582
sinistral1598
sinistruous1601
left-sided1607
left-handed1615
meeching1616
leer1631
backstabbing1803
sneaky1834
underhand1842
sneakish1864
underhanded1864
low-down1905
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 57 But Scylla in cabbans with sneaking treacherye lurcketh.
1658 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 73 He has an extraordinary sneaking countenance and way with him.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xiii. xxiii. 195 No Conventicles sneaking Cloisters hid Those Doctrines.
1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 223 It was, methinks, as sneaking a submission..as it was a false assertion.
1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 10 An absolute monarch to sink into the sneaking state of being a slave to one of his subjects.
1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors III. lxxiii. 102 They..in a sneaking and paltry manner pretended that they were not prepared.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 4 It's worthy of the sneaking spirit that robs a live man.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > small or trifling in amount or degree
eathlyc890
littleOE
slender1530
foolish1533
triflinga1538
paltry1565
puny?1594
mean1599
minikin1617
unconsiderable1643
inconsiderable1648
punctilio1660
sneaking1703
insignificant1748
flimsy1756
peppercornish1762
peppercorn1791
microscopic1798
pindling1861
midget1879
diddly1893
scroddyc1909
chickenshit1934
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible
unworthc893
unwrastc893
littleOE
narrow-hearteda1200
wretcha1200
unworthya1240
wretchedc1250
un-i-wrastc1275
bad1276
lechera1300
feeblea1325
despisablea1340
villain1340
contemptiblec1384
lousyc1386
caitiff1393
brothelyc1400
roinousa1425
poor1425
sevenpennyc1475
nasty1477
peakish1519
filthy1533
despectuous1541
beggary1542
scald1542
shitten?1545
disdainfula1547
contemptuous1549
despicable1553
skit-brained?1553
contemniblea1555
vile1560
sluttish1561
queer1567
scornful1570
scallardc1575
tinkerly?1576
worthless1576
beggarly?1577
paltry1578
halfpenny1579
dog bolt1580
pitiful1582
sneaking1582
triobolar1585
wormisha1586
baddy1586
dudgeon1592
measled1596
packstaff1598
roguey1598
roguish1601
contemptful1608
grovelling1608
lightly1608
disdainable1611
purulent1611
snotty-nose1622
vilipendious1630
cittern-headed1638
wormy1640
pissabed1643
triobolary1644
disparageable1648
blue-bellied1652
unestimable1656
scullion1658
piteous1667
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
snotty1681
snotty-nosed1682
mucky1683
bollocky1694
scoundrel1700
scaldeda1704
sneaking1703
ficulnean1716
unsolid1731
pitiable1753
scrubby1754
inimitable1798
scrubbish1798
worm-likea1807
small1824
lowlife1827
ketty1828
skunkish1831
yellow-bellied1833
scaly1843
cockroachya1845
wutless1853
nigger1859
trashy1862
low-down1872
cruddy1877
shitty1879
tinhorn1886
blithering1889
motherfucking1890
snidey1890
pilgarlicky1894
shitass1895
shoddy1918
yah boo1921
bitching1929
shit-faced1932
turdish1936
fricking1937
jerk-off1937
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
snot-nosed1941
jerky1944
mother-loving1948
scroungy1948
fecking1952
pissant1952
shit-kicking1953
shit-eating1956
bumboclaat1957
rassclaat1957
shit-headed1959
farkakte1960
shithouse1966
daggy1967
dipshit1968
scuzzy1969
bloodclaat1971
bitch ass1972
wanky1972
streelish1974
twatty1975
twattish1976
dweeby1988
douchey1991
wank1991
cockish1996
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 87 Sometimes little sneaking ill-contrived Stair-cases are built in a good comely large Structure.
1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. i. 21 For a sneaking Fee he pleads the Villain's Cause.
1779 F. Burney Let. 29 Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 410 A meaner, more sneaking & pitiful Wig..did I never see.
4. Of feelings, affection, etc.: Unavowedly cherished or entertained; not openly declared or shown; undemonstrative. Frequently in a sneaking kindness.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adjective] > innermost
inmostc897
innerc900
privyc1300
intrinsic1490
interior1548
intrinsical1548
inward1548
secret1548
retired1596
in-pent1613
bosom1640
sneaking1748
interior1775
inside1888
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lvi. 270 I believe I have a sneaking kindness for the sneaking fellow.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxvii. 265 You..shall reveal to me your sneaking passion, if you have one.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 244 Some sneaking virtue lurks in him, no doubt. View more context for this quotation
1842 W. M. Thackeray Miss Tickletoby's Lect. vii I can't help having a sneaking regard for him.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) ix. 204 I have a sneaking..belief in the virtues of the scrambling Briton.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 676 I have a sneaking sympathy with these good people.
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n.a1657
adj.1582- following stroke
- following through
- following up
- followingly
- followings
- followme
- followmelads
- followon
- followon offering
- follows
- follows out
- follows through
- follows up
- followthrough
- followup
- followups
- folly
- folly-filled
- folly-largesse
- folly-loving
- folly-stricken
- follyfilled
- follying
- follylargesse
- follyloving