variants
or less commonly snakey
1
: of, formed of, or entwined with snakes
the Gorgon with snaky hair—
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison2
: serpentine, snakelike
snaky coils
3
: suggestive of a snake
the oiliness and snaky insinuation of his demeanor—Thomas DeQuincy
Thomas DeQuincy4
: abounding in snakes
Examples of snaky in a Sentence
His hair was long and snaky.
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My favorite costumes in the Y entrance line were two Reputation clowns wearing scaly dresses and snaky blue boas paired with bright-red clown wigs that made everyone smile.
—Bryan West, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
By 2018, Wong had learned three important tricks: sowing his landscapes with small figures to provide a sense of scale; using snaky diagonal forms (rivers, roads) to separate near from far; tempering layers of warm colors with cool ones.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
The film features some very snaky tracking shots.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
Lean, mean and enlivened by the filmmakers’ love letter to both Hitchcock and Brian De Palma, this HBO Max premiere riffs knowingly on Rear Window and Blow Out in the age of virtual assistants, all-seeing algorithms, invasive surveillance and snaky tech magnates.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
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Bryan West, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
By 2018, Wong had learned three important tricks: sowing his landscapes with small figures to provide a sense of scale; using snaky diagonal forms (rivers, roads) to separate near from far; tempering layers of warm colors with cool ones.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
The film features some very snaky tracking shots.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
Lean, mean and enlivened by the filmmakers’ love letter to both Hitchcock and Brian De Palma, this HBO Max premiere riffs knowingly on Rear Window and Blow Out in the age of virtual assistants, all-seeing algorithms, invasive surveillance and snaky tech magnates.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
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“Snaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snaky. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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