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  • adverb In a snaky manner.

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Examples

  • India have the world's best batting lineup but, shorn of snakily swinging seamer Zaheer Khan, their attack lacks bite in the swinging English summer.

    English Bowlers Show India's Weak Spot Richard Lord 2011

  • Tamara Rojo was born to play Carmen, Lauren Cuthbertson was severe, snakily sinuous and creepy in the Micaëla role, and the blokes were all good.

    Friday evening Imogen 2009

  • Tamara Rojo was born to play Carmen, Lauren Cuthbertson was severe, snakily sinuous and creepy in the Micaëla role, and the blokes were all good.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Imogen 2009

  • Keaton also does the whole film as a kind of dance with the camera, which moves fluidly and snakily around him, and he is forced to constantly keep moving in order to avoid showing his face.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Ed Howard 2007

  • Keaton also does the whole film as a kind of dance with the camera, which moves fluidly and snakily around him, and he is forced to constantly keep moving in order to avoid showing his face.

    9/25: Samuel Beckett's Film; Christmas U.S.A.; The Purple Rose of Cairo Ed Howard 2007

  • Her novels tend to be suspicious of the elaborately "feminine" woman--what one might describe as "effeminate," in fact--who snakily uses her sexual wiles to obtain power; the plots reserve real power for women who are intellectually and physically aggressive, even as they frequently reward such women with romantic happy endings.

    The Little Professor: 2006

  • Her novels tend to be suspicious of the elaborately "feminine" woman--what one might describe as "effeminate," in fact--who snakily uses her sexual wiles to obtain power; the plots reserve real power for women who are intellectually and physically aggressive, even as they frequently reward such women with romantic happy endings.

    The Devil's Feather 2006

  • The mystical expression had gone from the dusky face and the eyes twinkled snakily with a sort of reptilian mirth.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • A car came with its headlights glaring luridly, and in that glare she saw a weasel slink across just in time — queer little low beast, snakily humping its long back.

    Maid in Waiting 2004

  • THE snakily undulating double row of glistening rails stretched on to the west.

    Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

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