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| Main Entry: | sneak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move stealthily |
| Synonyms: | ambush, case, cheat, cower, crawl, creep, deceive, delude, evade, glide, gumshoe*, hide, lurk, mooch, ooze, pad, pass, prowl, pussyfoot*, secrete, shirk, sidle, skulk, slide, slink, slip, slither, sly, smuggle, snake, spirit, steal, move secretly, snook, worm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sneaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sly |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, cagey*, calculating, canny, captious, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing*, elusive, foxy*, furtive, guileful, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, roguish, scheming, secret, secretive, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick*, smart*, smooth*, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily, bluffing, conniving, dissembling, plotting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sneaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stealthy |
| Synonyms: | catlike, catty*, clandestine, covert, crafty, cunning, enigmatic, feline, furtive, hush-hush*, noiseless, private, secret, shifty, silent, slinky, sly*, sneak, sneaky, surreptitious, under wraps*, undercover, underhand, wily, skulking, slinking, sub-rosa* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dishonest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying, untruthful |
| Synonyms: | backbiting*, bent, cheating, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, disreputable, double-dealing, elusive, false, fraudulent, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, recreant, shady, shifty, sinister, slippery*, sneaky, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unctuous, underhanded, unfair, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, villainous, wily, bluffing, deceiving, double-crossing, guileful, hoodwinking, sneaking, swindling |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, ethical, fair, frank, honest, moral, open, scrupulous, trustworthy, truthful, principled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fickle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vacillating, blowing hot and cold |
| Synonyms: | arbitrary, capricious, changeable, cheating, faithless, fitful, flighty, frivolous, inconstant, irresolute, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, ticklish, two-timing, unfaithful, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, untrue, variable, volatile, whimsical, coquettish, double-crossing, lubricious, quicksilver, sneaking, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | aware, cognizant, constant, faithful, reliable, stable, steady |
| Main Entry: | indirect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roundabout; unintended |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long-winded*, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, secondary, serpentine*, sinister, sinuous, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag, circumlocutory, long way home, long-drawn-out, periphrastic, sidelong, snaking, sneaking, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, straightforward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insidious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sneaky, tricky |
| Synonyms: | Machiavellian, artful, astute, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, dangerous, deceitful, deceptive, deep, designing, dishonest, disingenuous, duplicitous, false, foxy, intriguing, perfidious, perilous, secret, slick, sly, smooth, snaky*, stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, treacherous, wily, wormlike, ensnaring, guileful, like a snake in the grass, sneaking |
| Notes: | insidious (Latin insidere 'to lie in wait for,' from sedere 'sit') describes stealthy, treacherous behavior; invidious behavior arouses ill will, animosity, or hostility |
| Antonyms: | fair, honest, open, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obsequious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | groveling, submissive |
| Synonyms: | abject, beggarly, complacent, compliant, cringing, deferential, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, menial, obeisant, oily*, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, spineless*, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, unctuous, brownnosing, compliable, crouching, enslaved, kowtowing, parasitic, parasitical, sneaking, sniveling, stipendiary, sycophantic, toadying |
| Antonyms: | arrogant, assertive, brazen, confident, presumptuous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, devious |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, elusive, foxy, furtive, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, roguish, scheming, secret, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, smart, smooth, stealthy, subtle, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily, bluffing, conniving, dissembling, guileful, plotting, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever |
| Main Entry: | sneaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | underhanded, dishonest |
| Synonyms: | base, contemptible, cowardly, deceitful, devious, disingenuous, double-dealing*, duplicitous, furtive, indirect, low, malicious, mean, nasty, recreant, secretive, shifty, slippery, sly, snide, stealthy, surreptitious, tricky, underhand, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, yellow*, guileful, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, candid, forthright, frank, honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stealthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quiet and secretive |
| Synonyms: | catlike, catty*, clandestine, covert, crafty, cunning, enigmatic, feline, furtive, hush-hush*, noiseless, private, secret, shifty, silent, sly, sneak, sneaky, surreptitious, under wraps*, undercover, underhand, wily, skulking, slinking, sneaking, sub-rosa |
| Antonyms: | open, public |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surreptitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sneaky, secret |
| Synonyms: | clandestine, covert, fraudulent, furtive, hidden, hush-hush*, private, sly, stealthy, unauthorized, under wraps*, undercover, underhand, veiled, hole-and-corner, on the QT, on the sly, skulking, slinking, sneaking, sub-rosa, under-the-table |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, authorized, honest, open |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | underhand |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful |
| Synonyms: | clandestine, concealed, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceptive, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, duplicitous, fraudulent, furtive, hush-hush*, indirect, insidious, oblique, secret, secretive, shady, shifty, slippery*, sly*, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, under wraps*, undercover, underhanded, unethical, unfair, unjust, unscrupulous, wily, dirty-dealing, double-crossing, guileful, on the QT, on the quiet, sneaking, sub-rosa |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, forthright, frank, honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unfaithful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disloyal, adulterous |
| Synonyms: | cheating, deceitful, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, incontinent, perfidious, recreant, shifty*, snaky*, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, two-timing, unreliable, untrue, untrustworthy, wicked, adulterine, double-crossing, false-hearted, foresworn, moonlighting, not true to, of bad faith, philandering, sneaking, treasonable, unchaste |
| Antonyms: | faithful, loyal, trustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | untruthful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | cheating, corrupt, crooked, deceitful, deceptive, disreputable, double-dealing, false, fraudulent, lying, misleading, shady, shifty, sneaky, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, underhanded, untrustworthy, bluffing, deceiving, double-crossing, sneaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lurking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hiding out |
| Synonyms: | hidden, hiding, sneaking |
| Main Entry: | recreant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | afraid, apostate, arrant, base, craven, dastardly, disloyal, faithless, false, fearful, frightened, gutless, hesitant, low, mean-spirited, perfidious, scared, spiritless, timid, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unmanly, vile, yellow*, yielding, cowering, defecting, falsehearted, pigeonhearted, skulking, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | brave, courageous, loyal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, crafty |
| Synonyms: | artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, errant, erring, evasive, fishy*, foxy*, fraudulent, indirect, insidious, insincere, oblique, put on, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd, sly, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily, faking one out, guileful, not straightforward, obliquitous, playing games, playing politics, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward, trustworthy, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vulgar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude, offensive |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, base, blue*, boorish, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crude, dirty, disgusting, dishonorable, filthy, fractious, gross*, hard-core*, ignoble, impolite, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inferior, low, malicious, nasty, naughty, obscene, odious, off-color, profane, raw, repulsive, ribald, risqué, rough, scatological, slippery, smutty, sordid, suggestive, tasteless, tawdry, uncouth, unmannerly, unrefined, unworthy, villainous, sneaking, soft-core |
| Antonyms: | decent, inoffensive, nice, polite, refined |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | yellow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | chicken*, craven, deceitful, gutless, lily-livered*, low, offensive, pusillanimous, treacherous, tricky, unethical, unprincipled, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, confident |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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