sneakery means stealth; the practice of sneaking. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
Etymology
From sneak + -ery.
noun
- Stealth; the practice of sneaking“But time would fail to trace, in individual cases, the sneakery of History.”
adj
- Sneaky.“Old-people jokes are sin, and tying cats' tails, and unsetting the hens, and all kind of sneakery things — " The little girl hesitated a moment, and then she added : " It seems to me, mama, that a great many sins come into people's heads and try to get committed.”
- Involving or characteristic of sneakers.“People remember her descending on the Anne Beauty Salon in Mount Kisco to have her hair washed — dressed in a long black skirt that was on crooked and black stockings that had fallen down and flat sneakery kind of shoes and a straw pork-pie hat pushed back on her head under which the white hair shot out in every direction.”