Definition of Stealthier

1. Adjective. (comparative of stealthy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stealthier

1. stealthy [adj] - See also: stealthy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stealthier

steals
stealt
stealth
stealth-tax
stealth aircraft
stealth bomber
stealth bombers
stealth camping
stealth fighter
stealth fighters
stealth tax
stealthed
stealthful
stealthfully
stealthfulness
stealthier (current term)
stealthiest
stealthily
stealthiness
stealthinesses
stealthlike
stealths
stealthy
steam
steam-crack
steam-cracked
steam-cracking
steam-cracks
steam-engine
steam-heat

Literary usage of Stealthier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"The encroachments of tyranny and the stealthier step of royal prerogative have shrunk before this spirit which through the centuries has inspired the ..."

2. Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 by Carl Van Doren (1922)
"stealthier behavior of mankind or veiled it with discreet periphrasis; they sweetened their narratives wherever possible with a brimming optimism nicely ..."

3. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"Her caution seemed to be justified a moment later, for a heavier but stealthier footstep halted outside. The handle of the door was turned, but she resisted ..."

4. Theories of Style, with Especial Reference to Prose Composition; Essays by Lane Cooper (1907)
"And yet, shyer than gravitation, less to be counted than the fluxions of sun-dials, stealthier than the growth of a forest, are the footsteps of ..."

5. Oceana, Or, England and Her Colonies by James Anthony Froude (1887)
"Buccaneers are gone; the successors of Kidd and Blackman now work in stealthier ways. Paramatta has sunk into a suburb of Sydney, and the river is now ..."

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