stealthy
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- stealthily adverb
- stealthiness noun
- unstealthiness noun
- unstealthy adjective
Etymology
Origin of stealthy
Example Sentences
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The showrunner of the Angeles National Forest isn’t a 500-pound black bear or a stealthy mountain lion.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
The rule serves an important purpose, the judge said, in preventing stealthy takeovers on the cheap.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
A major air campaign inside Iran, however, would likely involve stealthy aircraft such as F-35 fighters and B-2 bombers, as well as cruise missile-firing submarines—weapon systems that featured in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
Sad to say, there could hardly be a better time to bring back Mr. Letts’s stealthy, slow-burning 1996 play about the human susceptibility to paranoid delusions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Matt understood, though, and he worked his stealthy way around the edge of the crowd to the music room.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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