sneaking
adjective
- acting in a furtive or underhand way
- deceitfully underhand, as actions; contemptible
- secret; not generally avowed, as a feeling, notion, suspicion, etc.
Wiktionary
adj
- Secret or underhand; not openly avowed.
noun
- The act of one who sneaks.
“Then there was much mirth and banter over the swift sneakings for home of certain men carrying large portions of puarka.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of sneak