sneakingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sneaking +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

sneakingly (comparative more sneakingly, superlative most sneakingly)

  1. In the manner of one who is sneaking or sneaky; slyly, covertly.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 82:
      "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"

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