sneakish

He knew that it was considered 'sneakish' to tell a secret, but he had never dreamed that secrets could be such very solemn things.

Paul the Courageous Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

"It's only one of those cads could have done a sneakish trick like that."

The Hero of Garside School

But through it all, a vivid little picture was continually coming before his mind's eye -- of a sneakish person manipulating a slide.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

'Because it would be sneakish,' said Langton boldly.

The Giant's Robe F. Anstey 1895

One could see that they were fighting people, but they had nice, honest faces; they looked straight in one's eyes, and had not the sneakish countenance of their northern neighbours.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

They'll think it most awfully sneakish of me to talk to you without them; do come down, there's a dear. '

The Story of the Amulet 1891

I am not a sneakish fellow, nor a coward; only -- it's a pity -- I lack audacity.

Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891

Kenneth was just going to say that he had given it back to Alison, when he saw that this would be sneakish.

The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891

Perhaps it's rather sneakish to begin without the girls. '

The Phoenix and the Carpet 1891

For the worst of it was that these four children, with a very proper dislike of anything even faintly bordering on the sneakish, had a law, unalterable as those of the Medes and Persians, that one had to stand by the results of a toss-up, or a drawing of lots, or any other appeal to chance, however much one might happen to dislike the way things were turning out.

The Phoenix and the Carpet 1891