Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sneakingness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being sneaky.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
sneaky .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously
Etymologies
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Examples
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And that was in September, and then some of you were asking how it turned out, and I had to say that it was longer-term sneakiness than that?
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway matastas 2008
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Besides the unavoidable and inescapable suspicion that fear of a public backlash was at play in the illegal decision to meet in secret about Brown's so-called "realignment plan," think of the cover this gives to officials in smaller jurisdictions who are inclined towards sneakiness with regard to open government laws.
Kenneth F. Bunting: LA Supervisors, With Governor, Violate Open Meetings Law Kenneth F. Bunting 2012
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William Shakespeare borrowed both from the Italian for his 1607 play Julius Caesar, and in English the words connoted sneakiness and treachery.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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He never stopped, it is all he can do, no real brains required, just sneakiness.
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William Shakespeare borrowed both from the Italian for his 1607 play Julius Caesar, and in English the words connoted sneakiness and treachery.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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William Shakespeare borrowed both from the Italian for his 1607 play Julius Caesar, and in English the words connoted sneakiness and treachery.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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And somehow her willfulness seemed to go hand-in-hand with a determined sense of sneakiness as well.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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Besides the unavoidable and inescapable suspicion that fear of a public backlash was at play in the illegal decision to meet in secret about Brown's so-called "realignment plan," think of the cover this gives to officials in smaller jurisdictions who are inclined towards sneakiness with regard to open government laws.
Kenneth F. Bunting: LA Supervisors, With Governor, Violate Open Meetings Law Kenneth F. Bunting 2012
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And somehow her willfulness seemed to go hand-in-hand with a determined sense of sneakiness as well.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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“Stealing” denotes acquisition through violence or sneakiness; “borrowing” is defined by unreasonable expectations of repatriation.
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