snaky cunning

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• Snaky — Snak y, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding. [1913 Webster] The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave it an appearance of snaky life. L. Wallace. [1913 Webster] 2. Sly; cunning;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• snaky — ► ADJECTIVE (snakier, snakiest) 1) long and sinuous like a snake. 2) cold and cunning. 3) Austral./NZ informal angry; irritable …   English terms dictionary

• cunning — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellianism, Machiavellic, ability, acute, address, adept, adeptness, adroit, adroitness, agility, airmanship, ambidexterity, ambidextrous, animal cunning, apt, arch, art,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• snaky — (also snaky) adjective (snakier, snakiest) 1》 long and sinuous like a snake. 2》 cold and cunning. 3》 Austral./NZ informal angry or irritable. Derivatives snakily adverb snakiness noun …   English new terms dictionary

• snaky — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, aberrant, aberrative, acute, ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous, anguiform, anguine, arch, artful, astute, batrachian, cagey, canny, circuitous, circumlocutory, clever, colubriform,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• snaky — a. 1. Serpentine, winding, snakish. 2. Sly, cunning, artful, deceitful, insinuating, subtle …   New dictionary of synonyms

• snaky — adj 1. serpentine, anguine, colubrine; snake infested, snake ridden. 2. twisting, winding, sinuous. See serpentine(def. 2). 3. venomous, poisonous, toxic, baneful, virulent; malignant, malicious, malevolent; noxious, pernicious, injurious,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• serpentine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. snaky, reptilian, herpetic; sinuous, slithery; winding, tortuous, snaking; cunning, wily, venomous, cold blooded. See convolution. Ant., straight [forward]. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. snakelike,… …   English dictionary for students

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• Machiavellian — Synonyms and related words: Artful Dodger, Byzantine, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellianist, Machiavellic, actor, acute, ambidextrous, arch, artful, astute, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, behind the scenes operator, cagey …   Moby Thesaurus

• acute — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, absorbing, acanthoid, acanthous, accurate, acicular, acrid, active, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, afflictive, aggravated, aggressive, agonizing, alert, animated, apperceptive,… …   Moby Thesaurus