crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
(adjective) marked by skill in deception; “cunning men often pass for wise”; “deep political machinations”; “a foxy scheme”; “a slick evasive answer”; “sly as a fox”; “tricky Dick”; “a wily old attorney”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sly (comparative slier or slyer, superlative sliest)
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
(having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
Synonyms: nimble, skillful, cautious, shrewd
Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
Light or delicate; slight; thin.
• artful
• cunning
• knowing
• sharp
• crafty
• shrewd
• shifty
• sly as a fox
• slim
• wily
• See also wily
sly
Slyly.
• Lys, YLS, YLs, lys, syl-
Sly
A diminutive of the male given name Sylvester.
• Lys, YLS, YLs, lys, syl-
Source: Wiktionary
Sly, a. [Compar. Slier or Slyer; superl. Sliest or Slyest.] Etym: [OE. sli, slegh, sleih, Icel sl, for sl; akin to Sw. slug, Dan. slu, LG. slou, G. schlau; probably to E. slay, v.t.; cf. G. verschlagen sly. See Slay, v. t., and cf. Sleight.]
1. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense. Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves. Wyclif (Matt. x. 16). Whom graver age And long experience hath made wise and sly. Fairfax.
2. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness, The litle of the kingdom I possess. Spenser.
3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick. Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner. I. Watts.
4. Light or delicate; slight; thin. [Obs.] By the sly, or On the sly, in a sly or secret manner. [Colloq.] "Gazed on Hetty's charms by the sly." G. Eliot.
– Sly goose (Zoöl.), the common sheldrake; -- so named from its craftiness.
Syn.
– Cunning; crafty; subtile; wily. See Cunning.
Sly, adv.
Definition: Slyly. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
