sneakery
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, bruised, individual, kind, little, perfect, poor
VERB + SNEAKERY
fighting, using
SNEAKERY + NOUN
girls, history, lanchester, things
PREP.
after, with, with
Definitions
noun
Stealth; the practice of sneaking
But time would fail to trace, in individual cases, the sneakery of History.
You fight fire with fire you know and so it is in this case fighting sneakery with sneakery.
adj
Sneaky.
Old-people jokes are sin, and tying cats' tails, and unsetting the hens, and all kind of sneakery things — " The little girl hesitated a moment, and then she added : " It seems to me, mama, that a great many sins come into people's heads and try to get committed.
Vy she snoop and peer all the time after those poor sneakery Lanchester girls?
adj
Involving or characteristic of sneakers.
People remember her descending on the Anne Beauty Salon in Mount Kisco to have her hair washed — dressed in a long black skirt that was on crooked and black stockings that had fallen down and flat sneakery kind of shoes and a straw pork-pie hat pushed back on her head under which the white hair shot out in every direction.
Masked men and women, mainly white, swish past on sneakery soles.
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6But time would fail to trace, in individual cases, the sneakery of History.
WiktionaryYou fight fire with fire you know and so it is in this case fighting sneakery with sneakery.
WiktionaryWe sneak into town using Dwarfish sneakery so no one sees us.
WiktionaryOld-people jokes are sin, and tying cats' tails, and unsetting the hens, and all kind of sneakery things — " The little girl hesitated a moment, and then she added : " It seems to me, mama, that a gre
WiktionaryVy she snoop and peer all the time after those poor sneakery Lanchester girls?
WiktionaryHe could not break her surface to verify anything, and he found himself wishing some mild violence on her, a nick of the jig in her perfect calf, a sneakery slip, a bruised shin. Something to break th
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