(v. t.) The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(2) These changes will not arrive with an astronomical bang, of course, but will appear with stealth.
(3) He is instead, assiduously effective, notable above all for his peripheral vision and awareness of space, the ability to play not just the pass before a goal but the pass before the pass that makes a goal, qualities that do not so much leap out as emerge, once again, by stealth.
(4) Last year’s exercises fuelled an unusually sharp and protracted surge in military tensions, with Pyongyang threatening a pre-emptive nuclear strike, and nuclear-capable US stealth bombers making dummy runs over the Korean peninsula.
(5) America's biggest companies have spent a similar amount beefing up their cybersecurity in the past five years, but analysts say this hasn't been enough to prevent "significant military losses" involving stealth, nuclear weapon and submarine technology, though none of the companies involved will admit it.
(6) They said: “The unintended consequences of such policies will actually lead to a further erosion of the ability of people from a wide range of backgrounds to live in the heart of the capital.” Lewis had cast the reform as removing a “stealth tax” that hindered regeneration and encouraged properties to be left empty but councils estimated that it could boost property companies’ profits by hundreds of millions of pounds .
(7) This new party’s swelling ranks want no more of the old politics, no more caution and obfuscation, no more talking tough while sneaking in good by stealth.
(8) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(9) And that will force the chancellor to make extra cuts or fall back on stealth tax rises, as he did last year.
(10) Ellie Lee, a sociologist at Kent University, agrees with this stealth aspect: "People will say secretly to their friends that they enjoy their work, but you have this really apologetic presentation of self amongst working mothers – you know, 'I'd rather work a bit less, I'd rather be with my children'.
(11) "We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies ... and to reverse-engineer them," Domazet-Loso said.
(12) Cameron will say: "This isn't about stopping responsible drinking, adding burdens on business or some new stealth tax – it's about fast immediate action where universal change is needed.
(13) June 20, 2014 2.06pm BST Radius Festival visitors get hands-on with Volume, the forthcoming stealth adventure from Mike Bithell.
(14) Fares have risen more than three times faster than wages and passengers on some routes have also been hit by ‘stealth fare rises’ of up to 162%,” she said.
(15) The therapeutic efficacy of non-stealth liposomes increased with increasing liposome (and drug) dose as a result of saturation of liposome uptake by the mononuclear phagocyte system, which resulted in longer circulation half-lives for these liposomes at higher doses (Michaelis-Menten pharmacokinetics).
(16) What started as a laudable if ambitious simplification of the welfare system has since been undermined by a toxic mix of hyperbole about what it will achieve, predictable IT bungling and, crucially, a series of stealth cuts that are changing the policy's character in advance of it coming to fruition.
(17) In an apparent nod to US calls for more openness, China allowed video and pictures of last week's runway tests of its prototype stealth fighter to be taken and posted online.
(18) We are opposed to mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cuts.” He said many conservatives saw a carbon tax, cap-and-trade and other climate policies as a government takeover by stealth.
(19) Japan has also sought to strengthen its claims to disputed territories by stealth.
(20) Under Gordon Brown, the phrase “stealth tax” was used by his critics at every budget.
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.