No matter how sneaky you are, you can never surprise yourself.
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Sneaky
//ˈsniːki//
Synonyms for "sneaky" (113 found)
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Strong matches (34)
Related words (56)
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Synonyms
8 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
9 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 21 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- баязлівы adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- хітры adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
Bulgarian
3 entries- подъл adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- скрит adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- таен adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
Dutch
2 entries- geniepig adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- gluiperig adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Esperanto
1 entries- insidema adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Finnish
4 entries- epärehellinen adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- luihu adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- ovela adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- petollinen adj (dishonest; deceitful)
French
4 entries- fourbe adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- furtif adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- insaisissable adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- sournois adj (dishonest; deceitful)
German
3 entries- duckmäuserig adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- hinterhältig adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- raffiniert adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
Hungarian
3 entries- alattomos adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- sunyi adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- álnok adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Italian
4 entries- disonesto adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- furtivo adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- malandrino adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- mancino adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- jim-screechy adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Latin
1 entries- perfidus adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Latvian
1 entries- zaglīgs adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
Macedonian
2 entries- лукав adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- подмолен adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Middle English
1 entries- sleighty adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
Portuguese
3 entries- esquivo adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- malandro adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- malandro adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Russian
3 entries- изворотливый adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- по́длый adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- хитрый adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- podmukao adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Spanish
3 entries- escurridizo adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
- marrullero adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- taimado adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Turkish
2 entries- sinsi adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- sofistike adj (difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries)
Walloon
1 entries- sournwès adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Yiddish
2 entries- כיטרע adj (dishonest; deceitful)
- ממזריש adj (dishonest; deceitful)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
I thought my son was being quite sneaky lately. Sure enough, I spotted him uploading a picture of himself cross-dressing and in makeup to a blog.
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We're sneaky.
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You're sneaky.
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