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furtive, shady, shifty, slippery, sly, sneaking, sneaky
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His understanding of American military might extends to complaining that new aircraft-carrier launching systems aren’t steam-operated anymore, as well as insisting (quite wrongly) that the stealthy F-35 is literally invisible to American enemies. — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, "Firing John Bolton Doesn’t Make You a Pacifist," 10 Sep. 2019 Then, one of Air Shepherd’s 40 pilots navigates a drone — think in this case of a stealthy aircraft that looks like a large model airplane — to the area to collect visuals. — Justin Worland, Time, "Drones Are Helping Catch Poachers Operating Under Cover of Darkness," 31 May 2018 The third option—a stealthy long-range strike aircraft—is something the Navy already attempted with its Advanced Tactical Aircraft program, launched in the late 1980s. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Navy’s F-35 doesn’t have range for real stealth strikes, House report says," 22 May 2018 Ensuring links through the Americas among core populations of these stealthy hunters, which are reluctant to cross unfamiliar areas, will be essential as their range is increasingly fragmented by human development. — Steve Winter, National Geographic, "The struggle to protect a vital jaguar corridor," 21 Aug. 2019 But the stealthy way it was established by recruiting (or poaching) from UC San Diego left scars that haven’t yet healed. — Bradley J. Fikes, San Diego Union-Tribune, "After a bitter battle with UCSD, USC’s Alzheimer’s program in San Diego moving forward," 18 Aug. 2019 Although the slab-sided B-52 is far from stealthy, against opponents without sophisticated air defenses the lack of stealth is not really a problem. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Why the U.S. Just Deployed B-52s to the Middle East," 8 May 2019 Three months have since passed with no worm in sight, although more stealthy hackers may already be hacking RDP in secret, targeted attacks. — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, "DejaBlue: New BlueKeep-Style Bugs Mean You Need to Update Windows Now," 13 Aug. 2019 But the civil service, whose members have devoted decades to harmonizing British law with EU law, seem monolithically opposed to Brexit and willing to subvert the popular will by stealthy leaks and scare tactics. — Dominic Green, WSJ, "Trump, Brexit and the Former Ambassador," 10 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'stealthy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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