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词汇 stealthy
释义 stealthy
adjective
uk /ˈstel.θi/ us /ˈstel.θi/
quiet and careful in order not to be seen or heard: 秘密的,偷偷摸摸的,鬼鬼祟祟的
stealthy footsteps鬼鬼祟祟的脚步声
The cat's movements were chillingly stealthy as it stalked its prey.猫科动物跟踪猎物时,动作悄无声息,令人毛骨悚然。
secret, so that people do not realize what is happening:
He tried to justify high and sometimes stealthy taxation.
Cyberintruders have become expert at creating stealthy programs that are nearly impossible to wipe out.
(of an aircraft, ship, etc.) unable to be seen on radar:
These stealthy digital aircraft are vital for the future.
The risks posed by stealthy submarines are real.
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Quiet stealthy footsteps from the hall awoke her.
The burglar moved through the house with a stealthy tread.
Hypertension usually has no symptoms, which is why it's such a stealthy killer.
Is this another stealthy political encroachment on the Bank's independence?
Production of stealthy fighter planes was accelerated.
If we had a stealthy satellite up there, they wouldn't be able to shoot at it.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving to avoid being seen
creep
prowl
skulk
slink
sneak
spirit
stalk
stalking
steal
stealth
stealthily

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Secrecy and privacy
Hiding and disguising

Examples of stealthy


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This may be viewed as physiological curiosity between the genders, but there seem to be more complicated reasons behind these stealthy encounters.
Volcanism is a great draw to unsubtle film makers, and to many jolly geologists, but its greatest hazards are stealthy.
The paper focuses on covert navigation where a mobile robot needs to plan a stealthy path to approach a designated destination in a cluttered environment.
We are objecting that these are at present stealthy judgments and not open judgments.
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Yet this is the stealthy vehicle coming in the silent night and of whose presence no one is aware.
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For a year or two, it did its stealthy business and the money came in.
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I am told, however, that they are not so stealthy that they cannot be seen.
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It is an extremely novel situation, and it has stolen upon us in so stealthy a fashion that we have scarcely recognised its arrival.
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We know the effect that stealthy drinking of that sort has on the moral of the people.
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The costs may therefore come under a different, more stealthy heading.
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I would say that they have been not so much stealthy as invisible.
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He accused us of a stealthy, piecemeal attack upon the social services.
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No consideration has been given to the stealthy and surreptitious decontrol which is going on day by day.
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The process has been gradual, stealthy, haphazard, almost inadvertent, but unfortunately both insidious and menacing in its cumulative effect.
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The approach to defining subsidiarity has illustrated either the frivolity or the stealthy ambitions of the federalists.
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