What's the difference between sneaky and weasel?

Sneaky


Definition:

  • (n.) Like a sneak; sneaking.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Weasel


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brown weasels and white animals undergoing the spring change to the brown pelage and reproductive activity molted, grew a new white coat, and became reproductively quiescent after treatment.
  • (2) It is suggested that the pineal gland product, melatonin, initiates changes in the central nervous system and endocrines which result in molting, growth of the white winter pelage, and reproductive quiescence in the weasel.
  • (3) He said: “We regret if our reporting led anyone to mistakenly assume that the ABC supported the asylum seekers’ claims.” Johnston said: “The good men and women of the Australian navy have been maliciously maligned by the ABC, and I am very dissatisfied of the very weasel words of apology that have been floated around.” “I have not said much because, I have to confess, I was extremely angry.
  • (4) While, today, none of us would take seriously politicians who bandy such weasel words about, these were quite the thing in the 60s.
  • (5) Their job involves eradicating animals that might want to eat these small game birds: foxes, stoats, weasels and, in the days when it was legal to do so, birds of prey.
  • (6) South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was happy to go back on his weasel words of last week and congratulate Haley.
  • (7) So, until we see the parties at Westminster supporting and calling for the unity of the Irish people, we can only believe that the great calls of Cameron, Miliband and Clegg to the Scottish people are just weasel words intended to gull them into accepting the Westminster unionists’ status quo.
  • (8) The Catholic father in Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall is just the most implacable enemy of nice-as-pie communists showing everyone a good time; the village imam in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep is an ingratiating, smirking creep; and the local rev in The Homesman (as played by John Lithgow) is definitely a weasel, rather too obviously grateful not to have to transport three traumatised frontierwomen back east.
  • (9) Two short-tailed weasels tremored slightly within 10 min of arousal.
  • (10) To call Hoxha “tough” is more than a bit of a weasel word.
  • (11) They are members of the otter, badger and weasel family (the mustelids), that are at home both on the ground and in the trees.
  • (12) Paragonimus kellicotti Ward, 1908 was recovered from 16 of 105 mink (Mustela vison), 14 of 244 striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), 10 of 446 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), 1 of 31 coyotes (Canis latrans), 0 of 326 raccoons (Procyon lotor) and 0 of 8 weasels (Mustela spp.)
  • (13) Muscular sarcosporidiosis is reported for the first time in the common European weasel, Mustela nivalis.
  • (14) Mike Pence’s weasel-speak in defense of Indiana’s RFRA wasn’t the political mistake.
  • (15) At a town hall in Willingboro, New Jersey, MacArthur was branded a “weasel”, a “killer” and an “idiot”.
  • (16) But a new managerialism – already familiar in universities and post-Kennett reforms – has infected the community sector, with weasel words its most obvious symptom.
  • (17) A 5 min exposure to the weasel elicited an analgesic response of longer duration (15-30 min) that was sensitive to both naloxone and the benzodiazepine agonist and antagonist.
  • (18) Over lunch, Clements is cheerful, charming and fizzing with ideas, so it is surprising to learn that colleagues once labelled him a "little weasel" and worse in a court case.
  • (19) - Victor Klemperer, 13 June 1934 We're fed this inert this lying phrase like comfort food as another little Palestinian boy in trainers jeans and a white teeshirt is gunned down by the Zionist SS whose initials we should - but we don't - dumb goys - clock in that weasel word crossfire
  • (20) However, the fence was only 2 feet (0.6 meter) high and did not stop the entrance of foxes, weasels, shrews, or avian predators.