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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?
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sneaky

mod. unfair and sly. Jerry is sneaky. Don’t trust him.
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Sneakier are barbecue and other tomato-based sauces that often are surprisingly high in sugar and salt, so be sure to read labels carefully.
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He shows how railroads and shipping competed and handled gold rushes, booms and busts, how sneaky geographies and even sneakier local and national governments affected steam shipping, and how the ships tied the West together.
Navigating the Missouri; steamboating on nature's highway, 1819-1935
Perhaps foreigners are sneakier, craftier, or greedier.
The 4 boneheaded biases of stupid voters: (And we're all stupid voters.)
However, it is difficult for spam filters that use optical character recognition technology to scan and read the text in the images--spammers are getting sneakier. They're sending pictures with textured backgrounds or various colors to throw off the filters.
New breed of spam
Of course, industrial lights can be sneakier than the fixtures mom was used to--even lights you believe are off can find a way to steal energy dollars.
10 ways to zap your energy bill: implement these ten low- to zero-cost ideas, and the rising price of energy won't leave you in the dark
But what about when the betrayals get smaller, sneakier, stealthier?
The other three days
If this situation continues, distributors will seek even sneakier ways to drop their adware--even joining forces with malware writers, as they have during 2006.
2006 annual threat round-up and 2007 forecast: a special report by Trend Micro- December 2006 David Sancho, threat specialist Jamz Yaneza, senior threat researcher
Plastic deformation can be one of the sneakier wear patterns to deal with.
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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
The dictionary defines analogy as a) a similarity between two things; b) any comparison based on that similarity; and c) a "form of logical inference or an instance of it, based on the assumption that if two things are known to be alike in some respects, then they must be alike in other respects." (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
Attorney prosecuting the case offered a deal: he told the lawyer that "he would not be interested in pressing th[e] case if the defendant was interested in going into the Army." (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
It may seem sneaky but, hey, cheating is way sneakier!
Copycat blues: is a bud pirating all your answers? Sneak a peek at this...
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
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