adjective
definition
Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.
Examples of stealthy in a Sentence
The rest was accomplished by stealthy observation.
Some nights, dreams took her on a stealthy walk down the path, taking advantage of every bush for cover.
It is important to have a stealthy installation, because otherwise it would be far too easy for a thief to pop your hood and clip a couple of wires.
I could just see from the doorway where I stood as a figure emerged from the darkened automobile and moved stealthy toward the back of the house.
Darian was only a few feet away, a testament to his stealthy magic.
They also invented ' stealth ' taxes, only they were so stealthy, no-one realized they were actually being taxed.
You will get stealthy until the panic is over.
James opted for a stealthy surface approach in the day.
You won't be surprised to learn that it's a word created by a stealthy and powerful ninja.
Last night, about two in the morning, I was aroused by a stealthy step passing my room.
The tax burden has been rising, in that stealthy way in which the Chancellor excels.
The current economic climate may put acquiring stealthy platforms beyond the reach of many countries.
Meanwhile drD has noted the stealthy emergence of new amazon vying for the crown of her absent role model.
Do you desire to be a tough warrior, a powerful wizard, or a stealthy assassin?
With the Stealthy Bundle, you get a 40 GB system, controller, remote and the games Assassin's Creed and Uncharted.
The escape was less than stealthy, and it was impossible to tell if there was more than one pair of feet.
Gerry, the station chief, tripped his wards a moment before the stealthy Guardian crossed the threshold into the ten meter radius around Xander, where he was able to absorb thoughts and manipulate minds.
Coyotes are creatures of slinking and stealthy habits, living in burrows in the plains, and hunting in packs at night, when they utter yapping cries and blood-curdling yells as they gallop. Hares ("jack-rabbits"), chipmunks or ground-squirrels, and mice form a large portion of their food; but coyotes also kill the fawns of deer and prongbuck, as well as sage-hens and other kinds of game-birds.
Gordon Brown 's stealthy taxes can put an indebted family on the wrong side of Micawber 's rule of finance.
They were also perplexed by ' unseen hands ' knocking objects off shelves, stealthy footsteps on landings, ' cold spots '.
These unrealistic toy guns are designed to be portable and "stealthy".
The privileges of the Roman patriciate, whatever we may call them, were not usurpations; and, if we call the privileges of the Venetian nobility usurpations, they were stealthy and peaceful usurpations, founded on something other than mere violence.
Normally, signs are relatively minor, and since it is kind of stealthy, symptoms are often interpreted to point to other ailments.
Californians had been very friendly to Americans, but Larkin's intimates thought they had been tricked, and the people resented the stealthy and unprovoked breaking of peace, and unfortunately the Americans did not known how to treat them except inconsiderately and somewhat contemptuously.
The mess with Jessi was bothering him, just like the stealthy Others tracking him.