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  • adjective superlative form of sly: most sly.

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Examples

  • That is to say, he's the quickest, sharpest, slyest and wryest comic actor on the screen.

    Stylish Spectacle Makes This 'Mission' Possible Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • They're among Stezaker's slyest and most unsettling works, because what they intrude into the portraits is a series of gaping holes: chasms and waterfalls that cleave faces in two, yawning caves and sunlit sea arches that tunnel into unknowable interiors.

    Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011

  • Unfazed, newest recruit Josie Rourke begins her reign as artistic director with a wink of candlelight, the slyest pre-show mobile phone warning ever conceived, a gurgling sense of fun, and a Restoration comedy, which is a first for the Donmar.

    The Recruiting Officer - review 2012

  • "We've got a low opinion of Old Clear-Orf ourselves, " said Larry, -but really, to hear Ern speak of his uncle any one would think he was the meanest, slyest, greediest, laziest policeman that ever lived!

    Separate Douglas Light 2010

  • She waited until she heard the door close downstairs before calling for her slyest footman.

    A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

  • Tinti secures her place as one of the sharpest, slyest young American novelists.

    The Good Thief: Summary and book reviews of The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti. 2008

  • She waited until she heard the door close downstairs before calling for her slyest footman.

    A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

  • The slyest thing to do would just have Scott stand up, and then any ELR people (fertlings?) would then just raise their hands and/or wave or something.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Very informal Ironman meetup… 2008

  • She waited until she heard the door close downstairs before calling for her slyest footman.

    A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

  • Janie steals a glance at Cabel, who is watching her, the slyest of smiles on his face.

    Wake Lisa McMann 2008

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