snaky
adjective
of or relating to snakes.
snakily
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a word derived from
snaky.
Example Sentences
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While the little angel perched on your right shoulder chirps, “The perfect present,” that impish red devil on your left will snakily hiss, “Keep it yourself. You know you want to.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2021
She moves from snakily grooving songs of uplift to romantic entreaties to reggae-tinged protest anthems.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2018
On the crevice bottoms a sight now and then meets my eyes which brings the “devil-fish” of Victor Hugo’s romance vividly to mind,—a misshapen 148 squid making its way snakily over the shells and seaweed.
From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe
While Sunnysides 140 was side-stepping a throw by Farrish, Pete’s rope slipped snakily over his head, and tightened around the arched neck.
From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Anton Otto Fischer
Little, frail, jerky steps the bullocks take, and again they put their horns back and lift their muzzles snakily to heaven, as the man pulls the line.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
