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Word Meanings - SNEAKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.

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  • CRINGLE
    An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
  • ABJECT
    1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • MENIAL
    maisniée, maisnie, LL. mansionaticum. See Mansion, and cf. Meine, n., 1. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden. 2. Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic
  • SNEAK
    1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked
  • SEQUACIOUSNESS
    Quality of being sequacious.
  • SNEAK CURRENT
    A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
  • OBSEQUIOUSLY
    1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
  • SNEAKING
    Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
  • SNEAKY
    Like a sneak; sneaking.
  • OBSEQUIOUSNESS
    The quality or state of being obsequious. South.
  • CRINGER
    One who cringes.
  • SERVILE
    1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
  • ABJECTEDNESS
    A very abject or low condition; abjectness. Boyle.
  • CRINGELING
    One who cringes meanly; a fawner.
  • SNEAKSBY
    A paltry fellow; a sneak. "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.
  • ABJECTLY
    Meanly; servilely.
  • SNEAKINESS
    The quality of being sneaky.
  • ABJECTNESS
    The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.
  • CATAMENIAL
    Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
  • SACRING
    a. & n. from Sacre. Sacring bell. See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus.
  • SCRINGE
    To cringe.
  • CRINGE
    To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad

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