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sneaky

[snee-kee] / ˈsni ki /
ADJECTIVE
underhanded, dishonest
Synonyms
STRONGEST
devious disingenuous nasty shifty sly tricky
WEAK
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
Antonyms
STRONGEST
frank honest open straight straightforward trustworthy
WEAK
aboveboard candid forthright

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Her plot-rich story includes art terrorists, undercover agents, snooty Parisians, sneaky New Yorkers and a one-armed billionaire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

But Everton won here last season and, given how good they are on the road, I just have a sneaky feeling they will get something this time too.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

The following year it was sneaky Canadian Shania Twain and a sus character from England referred to only as Sting.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Rafalat needed to hack the system—to find some sneaky way to turn rubles into dollars.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2025

But if that sneaky son of a gun thought it was going to terrorize Rex Walls’s little girl, it had by God got another think coming.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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