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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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