sneakingly

1. 1.

   in a sneaky manner

   “I always felt sneakingly that I wanted to be a concert pianist”

Questions about sneakingly

What does sneakingly mean?

sneakingly means "in a sneaky manner".

How many syllables are in sneakingly?

sneakingly has 4 syllables: sne-a-kin-gly. The stress falls on "a".

Is sneakingly a common word?

sneakingly 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.