weaselly

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weaselly

adjective more weaselly · weasellier · most weaselly · weaselliest · weasely

Resembling a weasel (in appearance). The writer had just entered into his eighteenth year, when he met at the table of a certain Anglo-Germanist an individual, apparently somewhat under thirty, of middle stature, a thin and weaselly figure, a sallow complexion, a certain obliquity of vision, and a large pair of spectacles.
Devious; cunning; misleading; sneaky. 1864, W. S. Gilbert, “Sixty-Three and Sixty-Four” originally published in Fun, V (2 January 1864), p. 162, later published in Bab Ballads, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970, p. 37, With intellect weaselly, artist has easily earned all his bacon and greens by i

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adj devious, cunning, sneaky

Français	sournois
Deutsch	verschlagen, wieselig

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@misc{weaselly_2026,
  title = {weaselly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/weaselly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}