"Sneaky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... them, gleeful at new details, panting to win importance by having details of their own to add. How well they would make up for what they had been afraid to do by imagining it in another! They who had not been entirely afraid (but merely careful and sneaky), all the barber-shop roues and millinery-parlor mondaines, how archly they were giggling (this second—she could hear them at it); with what self-commendation they were cackling their suavest wit: "You can't tell ME she ain't a gay ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... doing to the babies. I don't like it. It's dirty and sneaky and it's working hand in hand with the saloon. It has no ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... sneaky, cigarette-suckin' pup," rasped Bunk furiously, "you take your claws off his arm and let him alone, or I'll grasp the occasion to hand you the dose of medicine I come so nigh givin' ye at the game last Satterday. Mebbe he can save this ...
— Rival Pitchers of Oakdale • Morgan Scott
... named because of the tiny bells tinkling about its marble dome. He had eaten an unsatisfying meal in a small antechamber, waited upon by a stupid servant. And worse still, the food was ill cooked. On presenting his credentials, earlier in the evening, the grand vizier, a sneaky-appearing man, had welcomed him coldly, telling him that her Serene Highness was too exhausted to receive so late in the day; she had granted ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker
... I say. Whenever I leave my bathing suit on the grass to dry, I lay a good big rock on it, you can bet. I'd trust Skinny with a hundred dollars, I would, and Westy too, but gentle breezes—Nix. They're so plaguy sly and sneaky like. ...
— Roy Blakeley • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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