adj. (colloquial).—Unavowed; undemonstrative: e.g., a ‘SNEAKING kindness’ (‘liking,’ or ‘preference’).

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  1753.  RICHARDSON, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, i. 290. You, my dear, shall reveal to me your SNEAKING passion, if you have one, and I will discover mine.

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  1812.  COMBE, Dr. Syntax, I. vii.

        For they possess’d, with all their pother,
A SNEAKING kindness for each other.

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