variants
or less commonly snakey
1
: of, formed of, or entwined with snakes
… the Gorgon with snaky hair …—
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison2
: serpentine, snakelike
snaky coils
3
: suggestive of a snake
… the oiliness and snaky insinuation of his demeanor …—Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey4
: abounding in snakes
Examples of snaky in a Sentence
His hair was long and snaky.
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Oscar Isaac, with louche long hair and a snaky hostility, plays Nick Toches (or, rather, the fictional version of him from the novel), a journalist who’s a hipster-outlaw legend.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
For such projects, Van den Heever added to her knife set the kind of skinny, snaky blade used in Spain for carving paper-thin slices off a classic jamón ibérico.
—Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
Speaking of snaky white men, Stuart takes a trip down to his old law firm to offer Erica another chance to stab Ted in the back and join his firm as head of entertainment.
—Ayan Artan, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2025
My favorite costumes in the Y entrance line were two Reputation clowns wearing scaly dresses and snaky blue boas paired with bright-red clown wigs that made everyone smile.
—Bryan West, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
For such projects, Van den Heever added to her knife set the kind of skinny, snaky blade used in Spain for carving paper-thin slices off a classic jamón ibérico.
—Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
Speaking of snaky white men, Stuart takes a trip down to his old law firm to offer Erica another chance to stab Ted in the back and join his firm as head of entertainment.
—Ayan Artan, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2025
My favorite costumes in the Y entrance line were two Reputation clowns wearing scaly dresses and snaky blue boas paired with bright-red clown wigs that made everyone smile.
—Bryan West, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
See All Example Sentences for snaky
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“Snaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snaky. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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