sneakery

1. uncountableStealth; the practice of sneaking

   We sneak into town using Dwarfish sneakery so no one sees us.

   2013, Robert P. Wills, Nikki Taylor, Tales From A Second Hand Wand Shoppe

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   But time would fail to trace, in individual cases, the sneakery of History.

   1859, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volume 25 - Page 15

   You fight fire with fire you know and so it is in this case fighting sneakery with sneakery.

   1935, Lawhead, Mary, Shephard, Flola L., John Rood, Manuscript, The Lawhead Press

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1. dialectalSneaky.

   Vy she snoop and peer all the time after those poor sneakery Lanchester girls?

   1946, Richard Burke, The Frightened Pigeon - Volume 299, page 83

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   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.

   1901, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls

   He 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 the surface, just ding it a little.

   2004, Richard Henry, Rick Henry, Anthony O. Tyler, The Blueline Anthology, page 231

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1. Involving or characteristic of sneakers.

   Masked men and women, mainly white, swish past on sneakery soles.

   1994, Linda Villarosa, Body & Soul

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   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.

   1979, Alex Shoumatoff, Westchester, Portrait of a County, page 69

   I drifted out into the building's barren hallways and looked around; a few folks were buzzing about, entirely oblivious to me, and I waited for a while pretending not to be looking at any of them; then I began enjoying the old schoolhouse smell — dusty, and vaguely sneakery — and the sight of the half-windowed doors extending down the scuffed hall, and all the Scotch-tape residue on the yellowish walls, before I noticed that there seemed to be a brighter room towards the front of the building; so I wandered in that direction.

   1995, Evan Dara, The lost scrapbook, page 213

   This spring, ' Ann Demeulemeester has plain, sneakery shoes; so does Hermes: they were shown on the runway with everything from cashmere to black leather.

   1999, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman