Sneaky \Sneak"y\, n.
Like a sneak; sneaking.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sneaky
adj 1: marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by
underhand methods" [syn: underhand, underhanded]
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" [syn: furtive, lurking, skulking, sneak(a),
stealthy, surreptitious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "sneaky":
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute,
back-door, backstairs, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling,
clandestine, clever, collusive, covert, covinous, cowering, crafty,
cringing, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing,
devious, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, duplicitous, false,
falsehearted, feline, finagling, foxy, fraudulent, furtive,
guileful, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, indirect,
ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, privy,
quailing, quiet, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp,
shifty, shrewd, skulking, slick, slinking, slinky, slippery, sly,
smooth, snaky, sneaking, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile,
subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish,
tricksy, tricky, two-faced, under-the-counter, under-the-table,
undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive,
unscrupulous, vulpine, wary, wily
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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