Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ingenious or cunning manner; skilfully.
- In an artful manner; with dexterous or ingenious secrecy; craftily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete
Dexterously ,skilfully . - adverb In a
sly manner,cunningly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an artful manner
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Examples
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He employed the term slyly, knowing his somewhat puritanical publisher would not recognize it.
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Sometimes the titles slyly reflected this double nature.
Lost in Found Objects Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Those words had become with her a phrase slyly to play upon.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884
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He spake the old phrase slyly as, glancing round his train,
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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He spake the old phrase slyly as, glancing round his train,
Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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He spake the old phrase slyly as, glancing round his train,
Narrative and Legendary Poems: Pennsylvania Pilgrim and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Obama also made a point in Turkey, a strategic U.S. ally whose population is overwhelmingly Muslim but which prides itself on an officially secular government, of pulling out the same middle name slyly used as a slur by some during the election campaign as a badge of honour and evidence that America remains the land of opportunity.
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I think that the problem is her inability to think on her feet, to speak extemporaneously about a subject she should know something about, and the blatant why she tried to 'slyly' look at the notes as though no one would notice and as though she were a junior high student.
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I respond when I see people like you, cloked in pseudo objectivity, "slyly" pounding him down in hopes he will become a typical politician.
Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment 2009
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And today was sort of funny to me, that Mitt Romney came out and kind of slyly tried to criticize this Christmas Huckabee ad by saying, you know, I hope that he's sensitive to the diversity of faiths in this country.
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