Sneaky

Definition: Sneaky

Sneaky

Adjective

1. Marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods".

2. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sneaky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references)

Synonyms: Sneaky

Crosswords: Sneaky

I am, very very sneaky Sr. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

Name your cliche; Mother held him too much or not enough, last picked at kickball, late night sneaky uncle, whatever. (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Michael Rosenberg.)

I let that sneaky lizard lead me right into Megatron's jamming zone. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

And no sneaky knocking Mr. Dent's house down while he's away, all right? (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

That is one sneaky kid. (You Can't Do That on Television; writing credit: Jean Chatenet; Jean Cosmos)

The sneaky silent men the punk domestic violence men (Doo Wop (That Thing); performing artist: Lauryn Hill)

She's sneaky and smoked out (Never Let You Go; performing artist: Third Eye Blind)

The last part of which is completely irrelevant, as with the whole thing I guess, except, it's a rather sneaky way of getting into this next type of popular song which is one of those things about that magic, and romantic land south of the border. (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Whitney and the Sneaky Salesman (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Romantic At-Home Dinners: Sneaky Strategies for Couples With Kids (reference)

• Sneaky Feats: The Art of Showing Off and 53 Ways to Do It (reference)

• Sneaky Pie's Cookbook for Mystery Lovers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Prokofiev: Sneaky Pete and the Wolf/ Carnival of the Animals (reference)

• Sneaky (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Sneaky Snakes (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

And no sneaky knocking down Mr. Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?

Some a these farm boys is sneaky.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "sneaky": sneaky-seeming.

Albanian

tinëzar (catlike, crafty, foxy, insidious, shifty, sly, sly person, slyboots, sneak, stealthy, underground, underhand), i poshtër (beggarly, blackguardly, caitiff, dastardly, dirt, ignoble, infamous, mean, miscreant, nasty, nefarious, picayune, rammish, scoundrelly, scurvy, sneaking). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متستر, ‏مسترق (stealthy), ‏عمل في سرية, ‏ذو وجهين (double faced, reversible, two faced). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, snaky, sneaking, snide, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese 

鬼祟. (various references)

Czech

záludný (captious, insidious, shifty), rafinovaný (astute, crafty, cunning, refined, sophisticated, subtle, wily), potmìšilý (ill natured, spiteful, wily). (various references)

Farsi 

اب زیرکاه (Mean, Pawky). (various references)

French

sournois, en cachette, dissimulé (snaky). (various references)

German

schleichend (creeping, insidious, lingering, skulking, slinking, sneaking, tiptoeing, weaseling), heimtückisch (catty, dastardly, insidious, insidiously, malicious, maliciously, malignant, mischievous, nasty, perfidious, perfidiously, sneakily, treacherous, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

ύπουλοσ (catty, hangdog, insidious, insinuate, perfidious, shady, sneak, sneaker, underhand, underhanded), χαμερπήσ (base, caitiff, cringer, groveller, sneak, toadyish, vile). (various references)

Hebrew 

מת�'� ב (stealthy), חשאי (clandestine, discreet, inmost, quiet, secret, silent, stealthy, surreptitious, under cover, underhand), רמאי (cheat, cheater, cheating, deceiver, duper, fraudulent, humbug, impostor, mountebank, ringer, rogue, scoundrel, sharper, swindler, trickster). (various references)

Hungarian

szolgai (courtly, menial, sequacious, servile, slavish, subservient), trükkös (gimmicky), meghunyászkodó (milksop), csúszó-mászó (groveling, grovelling, slimy). (various references)

Italian

subdolo (sly, underhand). (various references)

Korean 

몰래 하�". (various references)

Pig Latin

eakysnay

Portuguese

subserviente (reptile, subservient). (various references)

Romanian

meschin (base, basely, base-spirited, costive, hen-hearted, illiberal, little, low down, mean, mercantile, nasty, paltrily, paltry, peddling, pettily, petty, shabby, small, sordid, stingy, trivial), laş (base-spirited, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastard, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, hen-hearted, invertebrate, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, pigeon-hearted, poltroon, recreant, sneak, unmanly, white livered, yellow). (various references)

Russian 

трусливый (chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, faint-hearted, funky, hen-hearted, knock-kneed, lily livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, poor-spirited, recreant, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow-livered). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skriven (cachectic, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, secret, sly, stealthy, surreptitious), tajni (backstage, furtive, private, privy, secret, stealthy, undercover). (various references)

Spanish

furtivo (furtive, hole-and-corner, sly, sneak, sneaking, stealthy). (various references)

Swedish

smyg- (illicit, sneak, surreptitious, underhand), lömsk (insidious, low down, ornery, shifty, sinister, sly, treacherous, underhand). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งลับๆ ล่อๆ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

Turkish

sinsi (cattish, catty, furtive, gloating, hole-and-corner, insidious, slinky, sly, snaky, sneaking, underarm, underhand), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), içten içe (sneaking, sneakingly), hırsızlama (furtive, furtively, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious), gizliden gizliye (sneaking, sneakingly), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), alçak (abandoned, abject, base, baseborn, blackguard, contemptible, cowardly, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, rascally, ravisher, recreant, scoundrel, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sordid, squat, swab, swob, vile, villainous). (various references)

Ukrainian

раболіпний (ancillary, creepy, humble, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient), боягузливий (cowardly, lily livered, niddering, recreant, white livered, yellow, yellow-bellied, yellow-livered), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, vile, yellow dog). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụng trộm (covert, sneaking, stealthy), thầm lén (sneaking), lén lút (backstairs, hedge, hole-and-corner, rose, sideling, sneaking, stealth, stealthy, surreptitious), giấu giếm (clandestine, close, covert, sneaking, stealthy, undercover). (various references)

Misspellings

"Sneaky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Seekie, senak, Senaki, Senjak, Senkaki, senkaku, sensay, seoki, snea, sneake, sneakly, sneeky, sneepy, sneezy, snek, snoak, sqeaky. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: snakey.

-1 letter: ensky, kanes, skean, snake, snaky, sneak, yanks, yeans.

-2 letters: anes, ayes, easy, eyas, kaes, kane, kays, keas, kens, keys, nays, sake, sane, sank, snye, syke, syne, yaks, yank, yean, yeas, yens.

-3 letters: ane, any, ask, aye, ays, ens, kae, kas, kay, kea, ken, key, nae, nay, sae, say, sea, sen, ska, sky, syn.

+1 letter: alkynes, kyanise.

+2 letters: ankylose, hackneys, kyanised, kyanises, kyanites, kyanizes, sneakily, vandykes.

+3 letters: ankylosed, ankyloses.

+4 letters: dyskinesia, mistakenly, sneakingly.

+5 letters: dyskinesias, johnnycakes, moneymakers, thanklessly, unspeakably.

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