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 and divides as sne-a-kin-gly 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.

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.