snaky

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
snaky
    adj 1: resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky
           ridges in the sand" [syn: {serpentine}, {snaky},
           {snakelike}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Snaky \Snak"y\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake;
      serpentine; winding.
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            The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave
            it an appearance of snaky life.       --L. Wallace.
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   2. Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.
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            So to the coast of Jordan he directs
            His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. --Milton.
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   3. Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or
      wand. --Dryden.
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            That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield.     --Milton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "snaky":
      Machiavellian, Machiavellic, aberrant, aberrative, acute,
      ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous, anguiform, anguine, arch,
      artful, astute, batrachian, cagey, canny, circuitous,
      circumlocutory, clever, colubriform, convolutional, crafty,
      crawling, creeping, crocodilian, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep,
      deep-laid, departing, designing, desultory, deviant, deviating,
      deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, diplomatic, discursive,
      eellike, errant, erratic, excursive, feline, flexuose, flexuous,
      foxy, froggy, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive,
      involute, involuted, involutional, knowing, labyrinthine,
      lizardlike, lumbriciform, mazy, meandering, meandrous, ophidian,
      out-of-the-way, pawky, planetary, politic, rambling, ready, repent,
      reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid,
      resourceful, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled,
      saurian, scheming, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine,
      serpentlike, serpentoid, sharp, shifting, shifty, shrewd, sinuate,
      sinuose, sinuous, slick, slippery, slithering, sly, smooth,
      snake-shaped, snakelike, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic,
      stray, subtile, subtle, supple, swerving, tactical, toadish,
      torsional, tortile, tortuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, turning,
      twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering, vermiform,
      viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery,
      vulpine, wandering, wary, whorled, wily, winding, wormlike,
      wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag

    

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