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Definition of sneaky
sneakier
;sneakiest
: marked by stealth, furtiveness, or shiftiness a sneaky trick
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Examples of sneaky in a Sentence
They make it look like you're getting a lot more than you really are. It's a sneaky trick.
It's a sneaky way of getting people to buy something they don't need.
Recent Examples of sneaky from the Web
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As my colleague Eric Levitz noted at the time, however, the Cruz proposal represented a sneaky, collateral attack on the risk pools that make insurance affordable for sick folks:
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After a journey through many traditional medical disciplines, her diagnosis was just burnout — no cancer, no stroke, no sneaky diabetes.
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Miss Emily (Emma Howard) is openhearted and obliging. Miss Alicia (Elle Fanning) is sullen and sneaky.
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Plenty of photos were taken, both by sneaky paparazzi and the ladies themselves, as seen on their various social media accounts.
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The singer teased fans with a sneaky-sweet pic of the pair lounging on the couch.
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Sat: Sneaky Pete and The Secret Weapon, 10 p.m., $5.
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But in heavily Republican Utah, the move was viewed as a sneaky, stab-in-the back example of federal overreach that still irks the political establishment 20 years later.
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Stabbings, jump scares, and sneaky attempts to deal with other human interlopers filled out one of the Los Angeles crowd's favorite gameplay sequences of the night.
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First Known Use of sneaky
1833
SNEAKY Defined for English Language Learners
sneaky
playDefinition of sneaky for English Language Learners
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: behaving in a secret and usually dishonest manner
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: done in a secret and dishonest manner
SNEAKY Defined for Kids
sneaky
playDefinition of sneaky for Students
sneakier
;sneakiest
: behaving in a sly or secret way or showing that kind of behavior a sneaky person a sneaky trick
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