sneaky
adj/ˈsniːki/
Etymology
Definitions
Elusive
Elusive; difficult to capture or observe due to constantly outwitting the adversaries.
- Catching those thieves will be hard: they're so sneaky!
- Be sneaky. Fish frighten easily.
- Some fans may have mistaken the album’s floatiness for aimlessness, but Mr. Mercer’s songs have never been sneakier, or prettier.
Dishonest
Dishonest; deceitful.
- They played a sneaky trick on us.
- Irish car bombs were a sneaky drink—they tasted like a chocolate milk shake, and more than once he'd been seduced into drinking several of them. It was only after he stood up that he realized how much of a wallop they packed.
Any device used for covert surveillance.
- […] in cooperation with the National Security Agency, installs and maintains "sneakies" throughout the U.S.S.R. and Communist China — but increasingly, denied areas are surveyed more simply.
- […] has used travellers to plant 'sneakies' - small electronic transmitting devices which form part of a surveillance network.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at sneaky. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at sneaky. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at sneaky
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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