sneaky

IPA: snˈiki

noun

  • (espionage, slang) Any device used for covert surveillance.

adjective

  • Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries
  • Dishonest; deceitful.
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Examples of "sneaky" in Sentences

  • Journalists see the failure to self-identify as sneaky, and it is.
  • Would any of us like to be described as sneaky, etc by our mothers on national television.
  • That being said, though, the "sneaky-sneaky" is a lot more challenging here than in the past.
  • I call it "sneaky" only because it is a poor substitute for the primary solution: lowering our CO2 emissions.
  • 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.
  • Stephen Holden again: "A pointed little thriller with metaphysical pretensions, First Snow is shrewd enough to approach basic philosophical questions in sneaky, offhand ways."
  • 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).
  • 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.

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