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emove: At the very last moment, we were snatched from the jaws
of death.
--n. 4 grab, clutch, grasp: He made a snatch for her necklace,
but she managed to duck out of the way. 5 scrap, bit, fragment,
snippet, segment, morsel, specimen, sample: We were able to
hear only brief snatches of their conversation through the
closed door.
sneak v. 1 lurk, slink, steal, creep, skulk, cower, lurk, pad, prowl,
sidle, Colloq pussyfoot: We caught Francis sneaking about the
house last night.
--n. 2 informer, Colloq tattle-tale, Brit grass, Slang
stool-pigeon, snitch, Brit and Australian nark, US stoolie,
Chiefly US and Canadian fink, ratfink, US shoo-fly: Frank
picked up a little money acting as a sneak for the police.
sneaking adj. 1 persistent, lingering, lurking, nagging, worrying,
worrisome, niggling, intuitive, deep-rooted, deep-seated, Slang
gut: She had a sneaking suspicion that Stephen was a police
informer. 2 innate, intuitive, inherent, private, secret,
suppressed, hidden, unexpressed, undeclared, unvoiced, unavowed,
unconfessed, unrevealed, unadmitted, undivulged, undisclosed,
covert: I have a sneaking sympathy with the underdog.
sneaky adj. underhand(ed), devious, furtive, sly, slippery,
disingenuous, deceitful, dishonest, unscrupulous, shifty: He
took a sneaky look at his friend's homework before starting his
own.
sneer v. 1 smirk, curl one's lip, sniff: Don't sneer - you might be
the next to lose your job. 2 scorn, disdain, despise, contemn,
turn up one's nose (at), sniff (at), jeer (at), laugh (at),
deride, mock, ridicule; underrate; Colloq sneeze at, Slang
knock: They sneered at her ambition to become a serious
athlete.
--n. 3 scorn, jeer, disdain, contempt, derision, mockery,
ridicule; sneering, jeering: Barry endured his classmates'
sneers without a word.
sneeze v. 1 sternutate: I was about to sneeze, so I grabbed a tissue.