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There was scurrying and there was furtiveness, and suddenly I saw flames.
2
About him was a furtiveness of the wilds, not guilty but protective.
3
They had the furtiveness of wild dogs and looked half starved themselves.
4
The Queen looked at her husband with shrewd and kindly furtiveness.
5
Perhaps a kind of public surreptitiousness, a quite open furtiveness, had troubled him.
1
There was a stealthiness in the performance that roused him to vigilance.
2
He raised the sash with stealthy caution, wondering at his own stealthiness.
3
No particular keenness was required to see in these forms a sentinel-like stealthiness.
4
He stooped and picked it up, a certain stealthiness apparent in his movement.
5
After this walking was easier, but stealthiness made their progress slow.
Usage of sneakiness in English
1
It's not part of this 'sneakiness' in the same way necessarily.
2
The sneakiness has hardened recently because nowadays many African players have Premier League experience.
3
My attempts at sneakiness were rendered pointless when a flock of pterodactyls flanked me.
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That was some major league sneakiness, Dame Honor.
5
That's just another example of your sneakiness.
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I mean his Italian sneakiness.
7
Given the Minister for Razzmatazz's penchant for spouting nonsense, you'd be forgiven for wishing he used some of Miller's quiet sneakiness instead, whatever the consequences.
8
"Luck," I said, "and subconscious sneakiness, I guess.