[onlybeforenoun] if you have a sneaking feeling for sb or about sth, you do not want to admit it to other people, because you feel embarrassed, or you are not sure that this feeling is right:
She had always had a sneaking affection for him. * I have a sneaking suspicion that she knows more than she's telling us.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sneaking is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sneaking a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sneaking is tagged as adjective.
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