Sentence:  Here's a question about Clare Daly, Eamon O Cuiv, Thomas Pringle, Maureen O'Sullivan and Mick Wallace. Are they useful idiots (exploited for propaganda purposes by cynics) or <WSD>sneaking regarders</WSD> (the kind of people who were against terrorism, but had "a sneaking regard for the lads in the IRA")? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  With regard to physical force Irish republicanism: someone who sympathises with it without actively supporting it; someone whose opposition to it is equivocal or less than wholehearted.