sneakily

1. 1.

   in a surreptitious manner

   “he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby”

   Synonymssurreptitiously

Questions about sneakily

What does sneakily mean?

sneakily means "in a surreptitious manner".

How many syllables are in sneakily?

sneakily has 4 syllables and divides as sne-a-ki-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sneakily?

Close synonyms include surreptitiously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sneakily a common word?

sneakily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.