Sneaky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sneaky \Sneak"y\, n.
     Like a sneak; sneaking.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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