What's the difference between catlike and stealthy?

Catlike


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An underweight male newborn revealed a complex pattern of abnormal findings including severe neurologic dysfunction, a catlike cry, defective ossification of the calvarian bones, hypertelorism, downward slanting palpebral fissures, epicanthal folds, a short and flat nose with a flattened bridge, broad thumbs, clenched fingers 3--5 on the right hand, simian creases, a congenital heart defect, internal hydrocephalus, and bilateral hydronephrosis.
  • (2) Clinical symptoms were catlike cry in early infancy, severe mental and motor retardation, failure to thrive, hypertelorism, antimongoloid slant of the eyes, ptosis of the eyelids, epicanthus, micrognathia, dermatoglyphics abnormalities, and partial syndactyly between 2nd and 3rd toes.
  • (3) The basic medical disorder includes dysmorphic facies, mental retardation, and a striking catlike cry in infancy.
  • (4) Clinically, this infant had a shrill catlike cry and facies of the cri du chat syndrome.
  • (5) I would try to steer clear of him, but, catlike, he would suddenly reappear, and disarm me with some Delmore Schwartz line about love or courage.

Stealthy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Worried that the song was too short, Gabler asked pianist Sonny White to improvise a suitably stealthy introduction.
  • (2) Having experienced a hands-on session with Hitman: Absolution at a pre-E3 event around a month ago, I'm pleased to say that it's retained all the slow, stealthy, hiding-in-a-cupboard-until-you-kill-someone gameplay of the previous titles.
  • (3) But there may be a stealthy way to play the gender card.
  • (4) 63 min: After more incisive work by Robinho, Luis Fabiano misdirects Jun Il with a stealthy touch ... and then hammers the ball high and wide from 10 yards.
  • (5) Trump has criticized the Pentagon’s top acquisition priority, a hugely expensive and advanced, stealthy, multipurpose combat jet that three US military services and key US allies, including the UK, are purchasing.
  • (6) But as negotiators tussle, in this trade deal and in every other, the sharpest of eyes need to be on the lookout for the stealthy influence of big tobacco.
  • (7) Economic ministers have previously said the government must address bracket creep because it was a stealthy “inflation tax” that would detract from economic growth and workforce participation.
  • (8) This may not be a slow and stealthy change, but an immediate and radical explosion.
  • (9) What had been invisible to Sheikh and other residents of Barawe was the stealthy advance of navy Seal team six – the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan – in a speedboat towards the Somalian coastline before first light.
  • (10) Alinejad told the Guardian she had been bombarded with messages and pictures since launching Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women .
  • (11) Outrage within the Democratic party over the stealthy manoeuvre has tarnished Renzi’s image and he was forced to backtrack.
  • (12) There are conflicting reports of how Ikrima survived Saturday's stealthy assault on Barawe by the same US navy Seal unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
  • (13) Cocks crow and partridges strut through nearby fields, food for stealthy farm cats.
  • (14) The good-looking, fork-tongued incomer is stealthy and ambiguous.
  • (15) Even in the recent snow and ice I stayed upright, although less by stealthy cat-like grace than by steadfastly refusing to leave my house.
  • (16) This case showed a possible threat of 'stealthy' and migrating foreign bodies, such as very fine acupuncture needles.
  • (17) And when Obama went to this kind of ‘let’s move away from hard power into the more soft power and more stealthy approach’, the numbers skyrocketed.” Carofano is right that total deaths from terrorism dipped after 2007, but they rose above those levels only after the beginning of the Syrian civil war, in 2011 .
  • (18) This is a system that can detect adversaries at quite a phenomenal distance and is stealthy so it is very, very difficult to find,” Johnston said.
  • (19) Defunding of the NHS and stealthy privatisation will introduce vested financial interests that will trump clinical needs.
  • (20) It was a stealthy act of digital anti-promotion that would prove massively successful, relying on news sites and social media to spread the word.