Definition of sneaking

"sneaking" in the verb sense

1. sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot

to go stealthily or furtively

"..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

2. sneak

put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner

"sneak a look"

"sneak a cigarette"

3. pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift

make off with belongings of others

4. slip, sneak

pass on stealthily

"He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"

"sneaking" in the adjective sense

1. sneaking, unavowed

not openly expressed

"a sneaking suspicion"

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Quotations for sneaking

My valor is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands. [ Sheridan ]

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. [ Otway ]

"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]

sneaking in Scrabble®

The word sneaking is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters sneaking:

SNEAKING
(162)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

sinkage, snaking

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word sneaking

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In sneaking

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sneaking in Words With Friends™

The word sneaking is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters sneaking:

SNEAKING
(156)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

sinkage, snaking

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word sneaking

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In sneaking

SNEAKING
(156)
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Words within the letters of sneaking

2 letter words in sneaking (7 words)

3 letter words in sneaking (17 words)

5 letter words in sneaking (11 words)

6 letter words in sneaking (7 words)

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8 letter words in sneaking (1 word)

sneaking + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence sneaking

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Words with sneaking in them (1 word)

Words that end with sneaking (1 word)

Word Growth involving sneaking

Shorter words in sneaking

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Longer words containing sneaking

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