stealthy

It could engender pride and joy at your stealthy maneuvers, indifference, resentment or using the friendship as collateral for a loan.

From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026

The seamless integration of old and new feels stealthy, and a touch subversive, a doubling-down on the museum’s approach to time as nonlinear, sinuous and delightfully slippery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Out of fear of repercussions, many women - and even men - are opting for what they call "stealthy feminism".

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

The Lockheed Martin aircraft has a stealthy design that allows it to evade being targeted by surface-to-air missiles and enter Iranian airspace undetected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

It had no lights, not even the red and green running lights, and it slipped off with a nocturnal and stealthy velocity.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Iran has a clear geopolitical motive and a history of targeting the water sector, and the fact that the attacks were readily detected makes a stealthier adversary like China less likely, Kaiser said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

A stealthier and less obvious plan would be financial repression, in which interest rates are held down below the rate of nominal growth of the economy, which consists of real growth plus inflation.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

His off-kilter demeanor looks especially dangerous in scenes he shares with Strong or May, whose Empress is stealthier than the strutting warrior she showcased in “The Witcher.”

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024

First, some cyberattacks are meant to be visible and, in effect, distract from the stealthier and more dangerous sabotage.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

It contained only classrooms and so at this hour was perfectly empty, which made us stealthier than ever.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

The marriage of sensibilities in front of and behind the camera is the stealthiest meeting in “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros,” and the most unexpectedly satisfying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

The concept with the Columbias is to not only architect something that will be upgraded to accommodate new nuclear missiles as they emerge, but also to construct the stealthiest submarine ever to exist.

From Fox News ● Nov. 11, 2020

I didn’t realize I was being noisy, of course, but from then on I’ve tried to be the stealthiest of note-takers.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2015

With bone structure that resembles a blend of Ms. Didion’s and Vivien Leigh’s in her later years, Ms. Anderman gives a lovely performance that goes straight for the emotional jugular in the iciest, stealthiest way.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2012

Just one of Gebu’s heavy footfalls—even at his stealthiest they were audible—and the whole household would be shouting the alarm.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw