Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Furtive; surreptitious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Somewhat sneaking.
Wiktionary
- adj. Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries
- adj. dishonest; deceitful
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Like a sneak; sneaking.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by deception
- adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
Examples
“I call it "sneaky" only because it is a poor substitute for the primary solution: lowering our CO2 emissions.”
“That being said, though, the "sneaky-sneaky" is a lot more challenging here than in the past.”
“Stephen Holden again: "A pointed little thriller with metaphysical pretensions, First Snow is shrewd enough to approach basic philosophical questions in sneaky, offhand ways.”
“If the baddies can fully secure a couple of blocks [eg Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn Queens Expressway & the Brooklyn Bridge] so there is 0.0 [subway/sewer/roadway/disused submarine high voltage transmission conduit or whatever) access _And_ they have sealed the waterfront so she can’t gain sneaky SCUBA Rebreather access.”
“I’ve been using a Mac since the pre-iPod days, when Apple was ignored or scorned by the mainstream media; and it still gets hit in sneaky ways (as with the remark about environmental criticism of Apple, as if most gadget-makers are any better on that score).”
“Would any of us like to be described as sneaky, etc by our mothers on national television.”
“Such intentions to mislead came to be called sneaky intentions (Grice 1969), and they constituted a problem for speech act analyses based on communicative intentions.”
“Journalists see the failure to self-identify as sneaky, and it is.”
Jay Rosen: When Bill Clinton Met Mayhill Fowler on the Rope Line
“Described as a sneaky little son of a bitch by his adversaries, Snyder had scaled the rocky heights of the American political landscape by adhering to a simple mantra: do unto others before they do unto you.”
“I have been trying, without success, to write about the books we read in secret, or what I like to call sneaky reading (and if this makes you think of the social reading I defended a few months ago, it should, antithetically speaking).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sneaky’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Introverted
Quiet, shy, Introverted, reserved, isolated, mysterious
abashed, alienated, alone, anonymous, antisocial, ascetic, asocial, austere, autonomous, awkward, bashful, clannish and 91 more...
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Kitten Is:
Mere days ago, I found a five-week-old kitten abandoned in the median of the Avenue we live on. She was in terrible shape, but is doing great now thanks to love and dedication.
The fo...small, hyper, bitey, silly, springy, soft, sage-eyed, tortoise shell, archy, darty, sneaky, bestriped and 27 more...
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EN - trendy lifestyle words
private, tenacious, vogue, hoard, landscape, extravaganza, besiege, eatery, wrest, refurbish, enticing, breakout and 24 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Scriptie: The Two Towers
dampen, treacherous, black gate, man-flesh, precious, elvish, dwarf, pursuit, quarry, hobbit, sprinters, horse lords and 236 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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danaclaire82's Words
spoon, waffle, discombobulated, rectify, festive, filigree, cantelope, ointment, dank, sneaky, gargantuan, moist and 2 more...
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Words Describing My Cat
fat, fuzzy, gluttonous, affectionate, stinky, mewling, orally fetishistic, warm, purring, sneaky, shedding, enormous and 3 more...
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sneakie
stealthy, sneaky, subversive words - inspired by surrepent.
surrepent, sneaky, slither, steal, slide, stalk, snoop, stealth, sly, snitch, secret, ssssh! and 15 more...
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Favourite words
smirk, fractious, misanthrope, apocalypse, disingenuous, tetchy, piffle, dither, mingy, sneaky, dope, quadruped and 45 more...
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words that act like themselves
look at them for long enough and you just might make friends
tumble, irk, fickle, sneaky, dance, hoard, bed, trill, snigger
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