stealthy
Americanadjective
adjective
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- stealthily adverb
- stealthiness noun
- unstealthiness noun
- unstealthy adjective
Etymology
Origin of stealthy
Example Sentences
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With these “stealthy” solar events, “there’s a kind of meager-looking eruption and then, all of a sudden, wham!”
From Scientific American
Combined, the costs of the first ships in that program, the stealthy Zumwalt destroyer and Ford-class aircraft carrier grew by $6.8 billion in today’s dollars, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
From Seattle Times
His $180 million takeover — completed in quick, stealthy talks with the British financier Keith Harris over a single weekend — transformed the club.
From New York Times
Ukraine’s most sophisticated attack drone is about as stealthy as a crop duster: slow, low-flying and completely defenseless.
From Seattle Times
While hailed as a civic leader in Cleveland, his hometown, and more widely as a pioneering Black journalist, he was unappreciated for having exposed the bomb’s stealthy dangers at the dawn of the atomic age.
From New York Times
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