SNEAKILY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

sneakily

adverb

Definition of sneakily

as in stealthily

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Recent Examples of sneakily 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 Rollins sneakily grabbed the title and put it near his abdomen. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 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 Pumpkin Seeds Seeds are sneakily a great source of protein, and one of the best ones experts love is pumpkin seeds. — Philipp Wehsack, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2026

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Damon can be as crisp an orator as any actor now working, but his performance here reminds you why Jason Bourne, moving stealthily through a crowd like a sheathed dagger, remains one of his defining roles.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
The noble consort takes the empress’s place, smirking, and stealthily pushes her down the stairs when no one is watching.

— Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026

Definition of stealthily

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Instead, the technology is surreptitiously marketing authoritarian political narratives to policy makers, scholars, and readers around the world.

— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
As a group of dancers surrounded her on the B-stage, she was surreptitiously harnessed into a rig that carried her aloft, limp yet belting, into the heavens, or at least into what looked like a UFO hovering over the arena.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 7 June 2026

Definition of surreptitiously

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At the combine, as executives and scouts furrowed their brows and furtively took notes, Mann and I stood on the concourse, watching team personnel watch prospects work out.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
Unlike Monday's burial for Princess Irene, which follows a Saturday prayer service in Madrid and a funeral Monday at Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, the Tatoi interment for Sofia's mother, Queen Federica of Greece, was not official, and took place almost furtively.

— Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 18 Jan. 2026

Definition of furtively

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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

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Reddit published an update this week outlining steps to curb spam, bot activity and inauthentic content—but the news arrives alongside reports of brands using Reddit to covertly manipulate what AI search tools like ChatGPT and others say about them.

— Cody Luongo, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
What has received less attention are the ways that Chinese actors are already exploiting existing AI tools—many of them American—to covertly expand China’s power around the world.

— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

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