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sneaky

[snee-kee]

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adjective, sneak·i·er, sneak·i·est.

like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.

Origin:
1825–35; sneak + -y¹

Related forms

sneak·i·ly, adverb

sneak·i·ness, noun

un·sneak·y, adjective

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Example Sentences

They count cards and win the raffle with some sneaky ticket placement.

Sometimes even secretive people in decline will let you look at the checkbook, but sometimes you have to get sneaky.

The rational strategy for banks, however, is to be sneaky.

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They count cards and win the raffle with some sneaky ticket placement.

Sometimes even secretive people in decline will let you look at the checkbook, but sometimes you have to get sneaky.

The rational strategy for banks, however, is to be sneaky.

So it takes some sneaky tactics to get one of the elusive cats on film.

The sneaky dogs will always be there and will have to be dealt with by the rule of law, ours if their's proves incapable.

He seemed to be a thief himself, and a sneaky one at that.

He soon becomes top dog through a sneaky ruse he concocts with his best.

Snaps to the sneaky bugger who managed to get it past the heirarchy.

It's a sneaky hunter-it lurks unseen and then snags its unsuspecting insect prey.

He regularly says something nice to our faceand did something sneaky behind our backs.

It tried to beam attention on a privacy problem of a rival, but exposed itself as a sneaky maligner.

He has been creeping up drafts boards into the eighth round as a sneaky third receiver, so word is getting out.

Including sneaky children who put them in their bags without their parents knowing.

And the margay probably isn't the only sneaky cat in the jungle.

The game requires you to be as sneaky as you can to accomplish your goals and move on with the story.

Lord knows what my sneaky brother was up to, but he would often win, so it must have been something underhand.

Arce are sneaky film makers who don't announce their talent in flashy ways.

He points out the sneaky language in the complaint:.

His presumably loyal first lieutenant is as vicious and sneaky a cad as a haughty can generously make him.

The internet offers tutorials teaching how to break e-book encryption or extract the text in other sneaky ways.

Secret sats, giant rockets and sneaky robo-shuttles are not the hallmarks of a world power retreating from orbit.

Bowie has always displayed a sneaky power in small, supporting roles.

Trump, with its repeated deadlocks and sneaky methods of undoing unpopular presidential.

And we're trying to get it in sneaky different ways.

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World English Dictionary

sneak (sniːk)

—vb
1.	(intr; often foll by along, off, in, etc) to move furtively
2.	(intr) to behave in a cowardly or underhand manner
3.	(tr) to bring, take, or put stealthily
4.	informal chiefly (Brit) (intr) to tell tales (esp in schools)
5.	informal (tr) to steal
6.	informal (intr; foll by off, out, away, etc) to leave unobtrusively

—n
7.	a person who acts in an underhand or cowardly manner, esp as an informer
8.	a. a stealthy act or movement
	b. (as modifier): a sneak attack
9.	informal (Brit) an unobtrusive departure

[Old English snīcan to creep; from Old Norse snīkja to hanker after]

'sneaky

—*adj*

'sneakily

—*adv*

'sneakiness

—n

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Slang Dictionary

sneaky definition

mod.
unfair and sly. : Jerry is sneaky. Don't trust him.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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