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Sneak   /snik/   Listen
verb
Sneak  v. t.  (past & past part. sneaked or snuk; pres. part. sneaking)  To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. (Obs.) "(Slander) sneaks its head."


Sneak  v. i.  (past & past part. sneaked; pres. part. sneaking)  
1.
To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. "You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away."
2.
To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.


noun
Sneak  n.  
1.
A mean, sneaking fellow. "A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks."
2.
(Cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; called also grub. (Cant)





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"Sneak" Quotes from Famous Books



... meanness, wanting to cheat the devil and save your own skin; don't I see through it? And your 'gettin' religion,' as you call it, arter all, is too p'isin mean for any crittur;—run up a bill with the devil all your life, and then sneak out when pay ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... I'd rather associate with the very worst of the deserters or dead beats inside there," and the dark eyes glanced almost in horror—the slender figure shook with mingled repulsion and chill—"than with that smooth-tongued sneak and liar. There's no crime too mean for him to commit, Mr. Gray, and the men are beginning to know it, though the colonel won't. For God's sake get me out of this before morning—" And again the violent tremor shook the lad ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King
... Her eyes blazed again and she would have precipitated herself upon him, but her father held her fast. "Oh! Oh! Oh! It can't be. It can't be. It's as unnatural as if you married granny. It isn't fair. How dare she come here with her whitewash and sneak young girls' lovers ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... really it's pathetic to see how some of the little dears pine for a half-holiday with a hoople, and since I forbade the youngsters to even look at the back of a geography or a spelling book, it is most amusing to see how they sneak into the library and devour the contents of those two books when they think nobody's looking. I caught one of the boys reading an Arithmetic in bed last night, wholly neglecting his Jack Harkaway books that I had commanded him to read, and leaving ...
— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs
... you now! Ah! you'd sneak away, would you? But it was you, my curse! it was you who made me what I am, brigand! robber! ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt


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