sneakily

adverb

Definition of sneakilynext
as in stealthily

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Recent Examples of sneakily Flitting between deadpan sorrow and impassioned romance, Bridgers’ album is alternately spooky, hilarious, mysterious and sneakily moving. — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Aug. 2026 Thorbjornsen's name has been penciled in, although he's been sneakily fantastic in his short PGA Tour career. — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Swimsuits are sneakily the easiest way to experiment with something new in your wardrobe. — Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 23 June 2026 Aemond tries to sneakily kill his kingly big brother, Aegon (because now that Aegon's son is dead, Aemond is his heir). — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 20 June 2026 But there was no kissing or tickling last night—no exposition of the artful ways that one can sneakily overtake an opponent through charm or surprise. — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026 So, New York must respond by trying to exploit the areas far in front of Wembanyama and sneakily behind him. — Fred Katz, New York Times, 3 June 2026 There’s also a Dory, a blue tang fish that is sneakily a nod to the school’s receptionist Dorri Hawkes. — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026 To him, Hepburn was just his sweet, hands-on, sometimes cheesy mother who loved to sneakily eat spaghetti with ketchup and snuggle with him while watching tv. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sneakily
  1. stealthily
  2. surreptitiously
  3. furtively
  4. secretively
  5. covertly
Adverb
  • From there, the group could stealthily disperse the new strain through air-handling systems at major livestock farms across the United States.
    — Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • World Liberty is celebrating the major milestone, while critics worry this is a new wrinkle on the classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse that will give corporations and foreign actors a new way to stealthily curry favor with the White House.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of stealthily
Adverb
  • Right now, there are no indications exploits are being used to install anything other than Monero miners, which surreptitiously harness a Mac’s resources to perform mathematical operations that generate the cryptocurrency for the attacker.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • That's not the first time a president surreptitiously switched planes.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of surreptitiously
Adverb
  • Kikuko, her appetite sluggish, nibbled the bread bit by bit from the edges, all the while furtively watching her father.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • It’s meant to blends furtively into a bookshelf or sits elegantly atop a bedside table, never inside it.
    — Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of furtively
Adverb
  • The state, in partnership with the federal government, built the camp quickly and secretively and opened it in July.
    — Eve Samples, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
  • Early modern Europe was not an ideal place to enforce intellectual property rights, which in those days existed only when technologies could be secretively monopolized by a guild.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Definition of secretively
Adverb
  • Yet despite fewer transits, increasing volumes of oil are bypassing the strait altogether or relying on US protection and ship-to-ship transfers to move oil covertly out of the Persian Gulf.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Amid backlash, Instagram head Adam Mosseri publicly committed to removing videos that use smart glasses to harass or covertly film people.
    — Ashlee Difuntorum, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of covertly

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“Sneakily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sneakily. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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