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SLY
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
Etymology
Adjective
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.
Synonyms
• artful
• cunning
• knowing
• sharp
• crafty
• shrewd
• shifty
• sly as a fox
• slim
• wily
• See also wily
Adverb
sly
Slyly.
Anagrams
• Lys, YLS, YLs, lys, syl-
Proper noun
Sly
A diminutive of the male given name Sylvester.
Anagrams
• 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
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