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(adj)
Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).
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Dishonest; deceitful.
(n)
The action of one who skulks.
Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.
(v)
(intransitive) To act timidly or cautiously.
Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
The act of one who lurks.
(UK, Ireland, slang) To gain influence over by corrupt means or intimidation.
(slang, intransitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
(slang) A stool pigeon.
(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
(transitive, usually formal or humorous) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
(ambitransitive) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
(transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
A person who moves stealthily around a place with intention to commit a crime, especially burglary or theft.
(intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
(chiefly US, slang) To betray a trust; to inform on.
(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
(transitive, intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
(transitive) To separate; to disengage.
(transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.
(transitive) To attach a hook to.
(intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
(intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
(intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
(slang) To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
Hidden
(especially military, computing) To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.
(transitive) To toss or lob with an underhand movement.
Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
(ambitransitive) To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to.
One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
(transitive, rare) To make or keep secret.
(transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
(intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
Small in size.
(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
(transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
(transitive) To make (something) dirty.
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
(transitive) To search (someone) by feeling their body and clothing.
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
(transitive) To cause, to precipitate, to bring (something) about in response or as a result.
The act of secretly entering a physical location and/or organization.
(intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.
To make or form a cross.
To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
(archaic or poetic) To sweeten.
(intransitive) To sneak about furtively.
Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
(ambitransitive, also figuratively) To (cause something to) move sideways.
To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
(ambitransitive) To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty.
(intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
(intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side.
An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb.
A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
An advantage.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
(Northeastern US, Florida, Atlantic Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.
One who stays where they cannot be seen (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
One who snatches, or steals by snatching.
One who smuggles things.
One who takes part in stealth camping.
Someone who sleeps.
One who infiltrates an organization or territory; an undercover or covert agent.
An infiltrator; a spy who covertly enters a territory or organisation.
One who eavesdrops.
(networking) A software or hardware tool for intercepting and logging network traffic.
A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position.
One who hides oneself or a thing.
A secretive person; a keeper of secrets.
(chiefly in combination) One who steals; a thief.
One who follows or tails surreptitiously, as an investigator.
(figurative) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.
One who intrigues; one who forms plots, or pursues an object by secret means.
One who ambushes.
A person who deals in secrets.
Somebody who leaks information.
Someone who intrudes.
One who peeks.
One who sidesteps.
Someone who subtilizes.
One who sidetracks something.
One who infiltrates a country.
One who espies.
Performed or happening in secret.
A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
One who pilfers.
One who skirts around something.
A person who catches animals with a snare.