sneaking regarder

noun2

1. •
   Someone who supports an unpopular cause.

   • Critics dismissed FitzGerald as a “sneaking regarder” and a West Brit — betraying the idealism of 1916 and aspirations of Irish sovereignty. — 2011
2. •
   (Ireland, disapproving) 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.