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sneaky
adjective as in underhanded, dishonest
Weak matches
base, contemptible, cowardly, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, furtive, guileful, indirect, low, malicious, mean, recreant, secretive, slippery, sneaking, snide, stealthy, surreptitious, underhand, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, yellow
Example Sentences
He radically chose to sprinkle the sound of an analog Moog synthesizer throughout the score and on every song — he composed no fewer than 11 original songs for “Clarence” — as his “sneaky hot sauce for the movie,” as he puts it.
“He’s sneaky good in the passing game,” offensive coordinator Greg Roman said of Dissly this week.
“He's a font of misplaced rage. Name your cliché; mother held him too much or not enough, last picked at kickball, late night sneaky uncle, whatever. Now he's so angry moments of levity actually cause him pain; gives him headaches. Happiness, for that gentleman, hurts.”
“MS is a sneaky disease,” she writes in the book.
“MS is a sneaky disease. Like some of my boyfriends, it has a tendency to show up at the most awkward times and then to disappear entirely,” she wrote in “Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood,” her 2005 autobiography.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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