Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a sneaking manner; meanly.

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  • adverb In the manner of one who is sneaking or sneaky; slyly, covertly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a sneaky manner

Etymologies

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sneaking +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Then I sat an hour, till I was quite dry and cool enough to go swim; which I did, but with so much vexation that I think I have given it over: for I was every moment disturbed by boats, rot them; and that puppy Patrick, standing ashore, would let them come within a yard or two, and then call sneakingly to them.

    The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

  • It bought out another, and I sneakingly suspect a better or at least more fun, part of me.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008

  • Everybody automatically knows everything you ever did when you thought you were totally and sneakingly and safely unseen.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Everybody automatically knows everything you ever did when you thought you were totally and sneakingly and safely unseen.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Everybody automatically knows everything you ever did when you thought you were totally and sneakingly and safely unseen.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Rather then my peers “sneakingly” listening to thier music, I think they should be allowed.

    Digital MP3 Players In The Classroom: Thoughts From A HighSchool Student « open thinking 2006

  • Rather then my peers “sneakingly” listening to thier music, I think they should be allowed.

    Digital MP3 Players In The Classroom: Thoughts From A HighSchool Student « open thinking 2006

  • We are all of us, the good and the bad, looking for tails — for one tail, or for more than one; we do so too often by ways that are mean enough: but perhaps there is no tail-seeker more mean, more sneakingly mean than he who looks out to adorn his bare back by a tail by marriage.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • ‘Lammle,’ he said sneakingly, when that was done, ‘I hope we are friends again?’

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • What cared Isabel Archer for the vulgar judgements of obscure people? and did Madame Merle suppose that she was capable of doing a thing at all if it had to be sneakingly done?

    The Portrait of a Lady 2003

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