sneakily

Example Sentences

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Ms. Keaton’s la-di-da breeziness was one of her most sneakily beguiling qualities; she came across as the best friend you’d love to confide in because you knew she didn’t hold herself higher than you.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

"He phoned me the day after the funeral and said can we spread the ashes on the pitch, he sneakily put a bit in the goal," said Sarah.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

The virus was engineered to be less likely to infect healthy cells, and also, sneakily, to cause the cancer cells it infects to produce a protein that strengthens the immune system to help destroy them.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

At heart, “About Dry Grasses” is a wise and sneakily humane chronicle of three adults, one betrayal and the price of living a toxically unexamined life.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2024

Bodin was sure that one could have floating land masses; he believed there were reliable reports of islands that sneakily changed their position during the night—but the big continents, he thought, remained in one place.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton