SLYNESS

craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness

(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

slyness (countable and uncountable, plural slynesses)

(uncountable) The state or quality of being sly.

(countable) The result or product of being sly.

Synonyms

• craftiness

Anagrams

• selsyns

Source: Wiktionary


Sly"ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being sly.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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