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- adjective
superlative form ofsly : mostsly .
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Examples
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The sliest of them may be a series of line drawings spoofing the long-standing rivalry between the playwright Frank Chin and the novelist Maxine Hong Kingston.
Karen Tei Yamashita's "I Hotel" is a finalist for the National Book Award Marcela Valdes 2010
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She got nothing, for instance, out of the juxtaposition of "roaming" and "Romeo" in the verse of Irving Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a neat half-rhyme on which Fred Astaire for whom Berlin wrote the song never failed to put the sliest of spins.
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She got nothing, for instance, out of the juxtaposition of "roaming" and "Romeo" in the verse of Irving Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a neat half-rhyme on which Fred Astaire for whom Berlin wrote the song never failed to put the sliest of spins.
March 2006 2006
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Peter Pecquius, smoothest and sliest of diplomatists, did his best to make things comfortable, for there could be little doubt that his masters most sincerely deprecated war.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Peter Pecquius, smoothest and sliest of diplomatists, did his best to make things comfortable, for there could be little doubt that his masters most sincerely deprecated war.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Peter Pecquius, smoothest and sliest of diplomatists, did his best to make things comfortable, for there could be little doubt that his masters most sincerely deprecated war.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610a John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Peter Pecquius, smoothest and sliest of diplomatists, did his best to make things comfortable, for there could be little doubt that his masters most sincerely deprecated war.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Southern humorist Roy Blount Jr. corrals his sliest essays in Long Time Leaving (Knopf).
Hot Type Schappell, Elissa 2007
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Southern humorist Roy Blount Jr. corrals his sliest essays in Long Time Leaving (Knopf).
Hot Type Schappell, Elissa 2007
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The man who stood aloof (the sliest, sodden-faced creature I ever saw) came nearer — To the question, doctor, and to my part, if you please! — Am not I her father? — To the question, doctor, if you please!
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