(1) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(2) "Fortunately Denmark seem to have rumbled this sneaky Dutch trick just in time to bench him... " 1 min: Denmark set the game in motion ... 2 min: Already the game has settled into the pattern we all foresaw, with Holland staking out the full width of the pitch and stroking the ball around deliberately.
(3) Expert view A sneaky, bar-room blow When Alexander Lebedev said he "neutralised" a man by punching him in the face on Russian television, he echoed the dark argot of the KGB, the agency of which he was a member long before spending a slice of his fortune on the Independent and the Evening Standard.
(4) The national team’s visit to Parramatta Stadium on Saturday night was no PR-stunt, nor was it a chance to simply get the boys out for the evening and avoid the temptation of a sneaky late-night visit to Kings Cross’ nightspots.
(5) Presidential candidate Marco Rubio escalated his criticism of his opponent Ted Cruz this week by suggesting a central component of the Texas senator’s tax plan was both “intentionally sneaky” and a “dangerous expansion of Washington’s power”.
(6) Marco Rubio accuses Ted Cruz of 'intentionally sneaky' tax policy Read more In a defiant statement announcing his boycott, the Paul campaign said: “By any reasonable criteria, Senator Paul has a top-tier campaign.
(7) Photograph: Garrett MacLean The sneaky bidder was trying to wait just until the end in hopes I wasn’t watching and snake the Terrys’ house out from us.
(8) On a rare occasion when they broke, Steven Fletcher endured the agony of a sneaky knee in the lower back from Fabricio Coloccini.
(9) Active for Life – a social enterprise organisation that promotes physical literacy – recommend doing this, and suggest a relay race in which students jump into and over various obstacles , or a rolling race in which students work together to move like “sneaky snakes” .
(10) That’s either lazy, sneaky or both.” Vanstone says the debate is not about anyone being weak on terrorists.
(11) Somehow, Seattle's fan base has become this larger than life entity that ranks with the best in the world, and strangely enough, this transformation seemed to happen under all of our noses, almost in a sneaky way.
(12) "He's gone down fighting," said the coach Ange Postecoglou , perhaps having a sneaky dig at Doncaster's relegation woes while he was at it.
(13) Last week I saw a man tweet: "Girl sat opposite on tube tried to take a sneaky photo of me.
(14) Collier apologised on Thursday and said he had no idea that the teenager, who was otherwise fully clothed and posing alongside an older man, was playing a prank commonly known as "sneaky nuts".
(15) She is bossy, domineering, abrasive, secretive, uptight and petty – but what really gets me is her serial use of covert, sneaky methods to get what she wants – often at my expense.
(16) But, what you don't get is a constantly updated stream of the most up to date publications; a sneaky peak of a chapter from a book on social work practice from @palgravesw , or free access to the best journal articles of the year thanks @routledge_phsc .
(17) So what if you had a very sneaky keylogger which waited until you were in a web browser and then sent its keylogging payload to its collection site?
(18) We’ve all been caught at various times having a sneaky listen to Euphoria .
(19) 82 min: Dempsey approaches the ref to show him blood seeping from his lip ... and the replay reveals the wound was caused by a sneaky clout from Yahia.
(20) Too many heavy meals, several large brandies, a few sneaky fags, plenty of afternoon naps, one unscheduled trip to Asda before a visit to the hydro-electric “northern powerhouse” and even the most limited of progress in EU renegotiations can feel like one giant leap for mankind.
Tricksy
Definition:
(a.) Exhibiting artfulness; trickish.
Example Sentences:
(1) These principles may look tricksy or artificial when described rather than experienced but are not, says Catton, an "exoskeleton" – rather they are entirely bound up with the ideas of the book.
(2) But what I do share with the hundreds of thousands living with this tricksy condition is disbelief at the stigma and shame still surrounding a disease that affects the brain and which can ultimately affect as many as one in three of us.
(3) Last year, the video to Lily Allen's tricksy comeback single, Hard Out Here, showed her under the scrutiny of a plastic surgeon, protesting: "I've had two babies!"
(4) Tim Vine gag named funniest joke at Edinburgh Brian Logan on comedy snobs Stewart Lee review – tricksy gags about liberals, rightwingers and ‘the Islams’ Noel Fielding review – solo standup set is a holiday from reality Aziz Ansari: ‘It’s time to get serious’ Lee Mack review – latterday Eric Morecambe is gloriously daft Q&A: Dave Gorman gets to the point – ‘most of the world is lovely’
(5) Shappi Khorsandi review – perky gags about porn and prejudice Harry Hill on tour: ukuleles, inflatable sausages and Bradley Wiggins’ sideburns – video Kevin Bridges: ‘I prefer real to surreal’ Stewart Lee review – tricksy gags about liberals, rightwingers and ‘the Islams’ Noel Fielding review – solo standup set is a holiday from reality Aziz Ansari: ‘It’s time to get serious’
(6) The meticulous crafting of huge piles of rubbish into tricksy self-portraits - revealed only when light is projected upon the apparently formless heap and shadows are thrown against the wall - in both Dirty White Trash (With Gulls) and The Undesirables - are satisfyingly clever and punning, for example.
(7) Their Islamic State hostage sketch is a little glib, but there’s a funny skit about a couple planning (in different ways) to spice up their life together, and a tricksy number, reminiscent of The Pin , where Paul G Raymond and Luke Manning review and perform their show simultaneously.
(8) She has not been above being tricksy at the European table before, where that serves her partisan interests, including over the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the commission, where her reported views blew about with the political wind.
(9) Arsène Wenger is also still seeking a non-tricksy midfielder and a serious centre-forward, sparking rumours as with the imminent arrival of Godot.
(10) More or less everyone says his best position is ahead of the midfield, obviously not as the traditional tricksy No10 but as a hairy chaos machine, someone who can hold the ball up half the time with the help of that famously massive chest of his, and the other half just causing a bit of havoc.
(11) No more the tricksy party of protest but, today and in future, and now mature, the nation's essential safeguard inside government.
(12) Harman says her contacts with Eustice were never "tricksy".
(13) The idea is that it will also learn to understand tricksy human traits such as irony, jokes and puns.
(14) One thing Ollie Dabbous didn't want to do was let the hype affect his food, which is clever without being tricksy, and often quite restrained.
(15) More comedy coverage Revealed: the nation’s No 1 toilet joke Shappi Khorsandi review – perky gags about porn and prejudice Stewart Lee review – tricksy gags about liberals, rightwingers and ‘the Islams’ Noel Fielding review – solo standup set is a holiday from reality Aziz Ansari: ‘It’s time to get serious’ Lee Mack review – latterday Eric Morecambe is gloriously daft Q&A: Dave Gorman gets to the point – ‘most of the world is lovely’ Ivo Graham review – old Etonian comic revels in inadequacy Rewind and recoil: Joseph Morpurgo’s twisted VHS world of comedy Bill Cosby standup review – at 77, still strikingly casual and effortlessly skilled
(16) On one hand, it might have been deliberate; a classic tricksy mind game designed to unsettle a side that had briefly threatened to halt Germany’s progress for good.