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"word": "sournois"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "duckmäuserig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "hinterhältig"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "álnok"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "alattomos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "sunyi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "disonesto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "malandrino"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "mancino"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "spione"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "subdolo"
},
{
"code": "jam",
"lang": "Jamaican Creole",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "jim-screechy"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "perfidus"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "podmolen",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "подмолен"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "malandro"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pódlyj",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "по́длый"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "podmukao"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "marrullero"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"word": "sinsi"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "dishonest; deceitful",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sournwès"
}
],
"word": "sneaky"
}
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"English terms suffixed with -y",
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{
"ref": "1974, Miles Copeland, Without cloak or dagger: the truth about the new espionage, page 244",
"text": "[…] in cooperation with the National Security Agency, installs and maintains \"sneakies\" throughout the U.S.S.R. and Communist China — but increasingly, denied areas are surveyed more simply.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Chapman Pincher, The Truth about Dirty Tricks",
"text": "[…] has used travellers to plant 'sneakies' - small electronic transmitting devices which form part of a surveillance network.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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