I come not to spy out the secrets of Tartarus, nor to try my strength against the three-headed dog with snaky hair who guards the entrance.
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Snaky
//ˈsneɪki//
Synonyms for "snaky" (153 found)
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Adjective(2 words)
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Translations
28 translations across 20 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- ثُعْبَانِيّ adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Belarusian
2 entries- змяі́ны adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
- зьмяі́ны adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Bulgarian
2 entries- зми́йски adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
- змиеви́ден adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Czech
1 entries- hadí adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Finnish
1 entries- käärmemäinen adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
French
1 entries- serpentin adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
German
1 entries- schlangenartig adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Italian
1 entries- serpentino adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Macedonian
1 entries- змиски adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Manx
1 entries- aarnieuagh adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Polish
1 entries- wężowy adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Portuguese
1 entries- serpentino adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Russian
2 entries- змееви́дный adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
- змеи́ный adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Sanskrit
1 entries- नाग adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zmìjin adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
- zmȉjast adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
- зми̏јаст adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
- змѝјин adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Slovak
1 entries- hadí adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Slovene
2 entries- kačast adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
- kačji adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Spanish
1 entries- serpentino adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Turkish
2 entries- yılansı adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
- yılanımsı adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Ukrainian
1 entries- змії́ний adj (resembling or relating to snakes)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
[S]ome of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence involv'd Thir Snakie foulds, and added wings.
Source: wiktionary
There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
Source: wiktionary
To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers of the Air.
Source: wiktionary
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