sneakery

sneakery noun: stealth; the practice of sneaking.

Noun

sneakery (uncountable)

Stealth; the practice of sneaking
- 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

sneakery (comparative more sneakery, superlative most sneakery)

(dialectal) 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.1901, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls
- Vy she snoop and peer all the time after those poor sneakery Lanchester girls?1946, Richard Burke, The Frightened Pigeon - Volume 299, page 83

sneakery (comparative more sneakery, superlative most sneakery)

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...1979, Alex Shoumatoff, Westchester, Portrait of a County, page 69
- Masked men and women, mainly white, swish past on sneakery soles.1994, Linda Villarosa, Body & Soul

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

comparative	more sneakery
superlative	most sneakery

From sneak + -ery.

From sneak + -ery (adjectival suffix).

From sneaker + -y.

What does sneakery mean?: Sneakery means stealth; the practice of sneaking.
How do you use sneakery in a sentence?: We sneak into town using Dwarfish sneakery so no one sees us.
What part of speech is sneakery?: Sneakery can be a noun or an adjective.

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