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sneaking regarder

noun

Etymology

From sneaking + regarder.

  1. derived from reguard
  2. inherited from regard
  3. suffixed as regarder — “regard + er”
  4. compounded as sneaking regarder — “sneaking + regarder”

Definitions

  1. With regard to physical force Irish republicanism

    With regard to physical force Irish republicanism: someone who sympathizes with it without actively supporting it; someone whose opposition to it is equivocal or less than wholehearted.

  2. Someone who supports an unpopular cause.

    • He justified the “necessary lie” and was a sneaking regarder of Machiavelli and Hobbes; he agreed with Cicero’s view that “we must dissemble if we would live in the world”.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA