Synonyms and Antonyms of sneaking
1
given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions
- never let one of those sneaking salespeople into your house
artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, wily
close, closemouthed, reticent, secretive
clandestine, covert, dark
deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, devious, duplicitous, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded
cheating, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, knavish, two-faced
lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful
insidious, perfidious, serpentine, treacherous
aboveboard, forthright, plainspoken, straightforward
candid, direct, foursquare, frank, open, plain
honest, trustworthy, truthful
2
undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others
- harbored a sneaking admiration for his chief business rival
backstairs, behind-the-scenes, clandestine, covert, furtive, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, private, privy, secret, sneak, sneaky, stealth, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded
back-channel, closed-door, off-the-books, off-the-record
classified, confidential, restricted, top secret, undisclosed
concealed, hidden, secreted, subterranean, unadvertised, unexposed
acknowledged, avowed
aboveboard, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguised
unclassified, unrestricted
clear, evident, manifest, obvious, patent, plain
3
arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust
- a sneaking two-timer who has completely lost his wife's trust
cheap, contemptible, cruddy, deplorable, despicable, dirty, grubby, lame, lousy, mean, nasty, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, ratty, scabby, scummy, scurvy, sorry, wretched
abhorrent, abominable, condemnable, detestable, execrable, hateful, loathsome, odious
disgusting, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, revulsive
discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, ignominious, shameful
base, ignoble, low, shabby, sordid, squalid, vile
blamable, censurable, reprehensible, reproachable
cowardly, craven, dastardly
unethical
