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sneaky Pete

slang Cheap, low-quality wine. Primarily heard in US. I can't drink sneaky Pete anymore, that stuff is disgusting! Is he drunk on sneaky Pete already?

sneaky

mod. unfair and sly. Jerry is sneaky. Don’t trust him.

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You won't come up against a sneakier foe than an incoming coyote.

Hunting the hunters: learning to put the sneak on predators will make you a player in the big game contest

69) Analogy is closely related to metaphor and prototype, but the latter two may be easier to spot, making analogy sneakier and thus more insidious.

Everything new is old again: brain fingerprinting and evidentiary analogy

On a sneakier note, the survey showed a third of us use mobiles to conceal our true locations, more than quarter make up last minute excuses on their mobiles to avoid meetings and more than a fifth mislead a family member, partner or friend on the phone, lie to an employer or pretend they are working when they are not.

It's good to talk to your partner, family...and secret lover

An even sneakier assault has been playing out in slow motion through the budget process.

Food stamped

100) Poston's community analyst came up with an even sneakier way of enticing young men in camp into going along with the draft.

A penny for their thoughts: draft resistance at the Poston Relocation Center

These purse lifters are getting more experienced and sneakier.

OAP's bingo win stolen

Theatre is this poor little art form that doesn't get much attention--so we're allowed to tell stories that are sneakier than people think.

Adam Bock: what can we imagine? An inventive playwright depends on collaborators for the finishing touch

The pop-under is the sneakier relative of the pop-up ad.

Pop-up advertising online: slaying the hydra

But he manages to convey conflict in sneakier ways.

Chasing the Chador

While those charges are pretty easy to spot and compare from fund to fund, the 12b-1 is a sneakier fee that might creep up on your mutual fund invest creep up on your mutual investment and catch you unawares.

Watch out for the sneakiest fee

In fact, the formal semantics of model theory is even sneakier than the above description.

Law and Truth

The opponents of public education are getting nastier and sneakier.

Schools under fire: in our faces ... behind our backs

If snails are a problem, control the ones you see by hand-picking; lay chemical bait for the sneakier ones.

Living with dwarf citrus: watering, feeding, keeping them small

Today's clocks, however, are sneakier than that--inasmuch as they are less about something scheduled to occur in the near future than they are a means to keep people watching right now, as anchors endeavor to kill time while nothing much is happening.

Time for the national crisis mood to lighten up: TV's continued use of the tools of brinkmanship is a ticking time bomb

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