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sneaky
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sneaky has 2 senses
- sneaky(s = adj.all) underhand, underhanded - marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods" Derived forms noun sneak1, noun sneakiness1
- sneaky(s = adj.all) furtive, sneak, stealthy, surreptitious - marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" Derived forms noun sneak2, noun sneakiness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sneaky, adj. (sneakier, sneakiest) given to or characterized by sneaking; furtive, mean.
Derivative
sneakily adv. sneakiness n.
THESAURUS
sneaky
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, back-door, backstairs, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clandestine, clever, collusive, covert, covinous, cowering, crafty, cringing, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, duplicitous, false, falsehearted, feline, finagling, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, privy, quailing, quiet, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skulking, slick, slinking, slinky, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaking, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive, unscrupulous, vulpine, wary, wily
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