sneakier; sneakiest
: marked by stealth, furtiveness, or shiftiness
a sneaky trick
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.
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Micky van de Ven’s goal, the opener on 39 minutes, came from a sneaky tactic which saw his new captain, and fellow centre-back, Cristian Romero peel towards the edge of the box and head the ball back into a dangerous area from Vicario’s free kick.
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Jay Harris, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
As his August 10 home run illustrated, Collins has some sneaky pop in his bat.
—Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA's archived content.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
Now, a group of researchers from the Mayo Clinic has applied that knowledge, and the sneaky immune-system-avoiding trick used by cancer, to develop a treatment for type 1 diabetes.
—New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
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Jay Harris, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
As his August 10 home run illustrated, Collins has some sneaky pop in his bat.
—Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA's archived content.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
Now, a group of researchers from the Mayo Clinic has applied that knowledge, and the sneaky immune-system-avoiding trick used by cancer, to develop a treatment for type 1 diabetes.
—New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sneaky
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“Sneaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sneaky. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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