Reverse Dictionary: STEALTH

ADJECTIVES
1818 ► CREEP slow or stealthy motion
1897 ► THIEFY stealthy, furtive → Sc.
1898 ► BACK-DOOR mean, stealthy, underhand, devious, cunning, untrustworthy → N. Ireland (Bk.)
1899 ► PUSSYFOOT  characterized by excessive caution or hesitation; non-committal, evasive; also, carried out in an underhand manner; stealthy, furtive, sly


ADVERBS
1225 ► HIDLINS secretly, stealthily, clandestinely → Sc.


NOUNS, PERSON
1563 ► CORNER-CREEPER a person whose proceedings are underhand and stealthy → obs.
1824 ► TAPEWORM a parasite; a slow or stealthy person or thing
1907 ► PUSSYFOOT  a person who acts evasively, non-committally, or in an excessively cautious or hesitant manner; also, a person who behaves in an underhand manner; someone who proceeds stealthily or furtively
1908 ► MOUSER a person who goes about and stealthily and pryingly like a cat after mice → (Bk.)
1911 ► PUSSYFOOTER a person who moves quietly or stealthily; also, someone who behaves in a sly, furtive, or underhand way


VERBS
..725 ► BESTEAL to move stealthily → obs.
1586 ► LEER to walk stealthily or with averted looks; to slink away → obs.
1732 ► SAP to make way in a stealthy or insidious manner
1768 ► SMUGGLE to get possession of by stealth
1782 ► SCOUK to skulk, to move in a stealthy, secretive way; to dodge or sneak about, to lurk; to conceal oneself, to hide; to seek shelter in hiding → Sc.
1823 ► WORK THE ORACLE to successfully perform something through stealth and cunning or with the aid of an outright lie → Brit. sl.
1848 ► SNAKE to move in a creeping, crawling, or stealthy manner suggestive of the movements of a snake
1851 ► SLY to sneak, to move stealthily → Amer. dial.
1869 ► INDIAN to roam or move about, esp. stealthily; to sneak up → Amer. dial.
1902 ► PUSSYFOOT to tread softly or lightly so as to avoid being notice; to move warily or stealthily; also, to behave in a sly, furtive, or underhand manner
1904 ► GUM-SHOE to move or act with stealth as if wearing gum-shoes → colloq.
1910 ► SNAKE OFF to slip along, to move stealthily → sl., orig. Aust.
1910 ► SNAKE OUT to slip along, to move stealthily → sl., orig. Aust.
1920 ► OIL to move quietly, stealthily, or in an underhand, surreptitious manner → sl.
1944 ► INDIAN UP to roam or move about, esp. stealthily; to sneak up → Amer. dial.
1953 ► PUSS to move silent and stealthily, like a cat