Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Furtive; surreptitious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat sneaking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Like a sneak; sneaking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Difficult to catch due to constantly
outwitting the adversaries - adjective
dishonest ;deceitful
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by deception
- adjective marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
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Examples
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I call it "sneaky" only because it is a poor substitute for the primary solution: lowering our CO2 emissions.
Rebecca Anderson: Climate Science Round-Up: Ocean Fertilization (or Climate Liposuction) Rebecca Anderson 2010
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I call it "sneaky" only because it is a poor substitute for the primary solution: lowering our CO2 emissions.
Rebecca Anderson: Climate Science Round-Up: Ocean Fertilization (or Climate Liposuction) Rebecca Anderson 2010
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I call it "sneaky" only because it is a poor substitute for the primary solution: lowering our CO2 emissions.
Rebecca Anderson: Climate Science Round-Up: Ocean Fertilization (or Climate Liposuction) Rebecca Anderson 2010
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That being said, though, the "sneaky-sneaky" is a lot more challenging here than in the past.
Archive 2008-06-01 SVGL 2008
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Stephen Holden again: "A pointed little thriller with metaphysical pretensions, First Snow is shrewd enough to approach basic philosophical questions in sneaky, offhand ways."
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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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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).
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Would any of us like to be described as sneaky, etc by our mothers on national television.
Jon & Kate Gosselin Shockingly Decide To Shockingly Divorce 2009
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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.
Him 2009
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Journalists see the failure to self-identify as sneaky, and it is.
Jay Rosen: When Bill Clinton Met Mayhill Fowler on the Rope Line 2008
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