sly adj
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sly — [adj] clever, devious arch, artful, astute, bluffing, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, conniving, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, doubledealing, elusive, foxy … New thesaurus
sly — [slaı] adj [Date: 1200 1300; : Old Norse; Origin: slœgr] 1.) someone who is sly cleverly deceives people in order to get what they want = ↑cunning 2.) sly smile/glance/wink etc a smile, look etc that shows you know something secret ▪ He leaned… … Dictionary of contemporary English
sly — [slī] adj. slier or slyer, sliest or slyest [ME sley < ON slœgr, clever, cunning, lit., able to strike < base of slā & OE slean, to strike: see SLAY] 1. Dial. skillful or clever 2. skillful at trickery or deceit; crafty; wily 3. showing a… … English World dictionary
sly — adj. (slyer, slyest) 1 cunning; crafty; wily. 2 a (of a person) practising secrecy or stealth. b (of an action etc.) done etc. in secret. 3 hypocritical; ironical. 4 knowing; arch; bantering; insinuating. 5 Austral. & NZ sl. (esp. of liquor)… … Useful english dictionary
sly — adj. Sly is used with these nouns: ↑dig, ↑grin, ↑humour, ↑look, ↑smile, ↑wink, ↑wit … Collocations dictionary
sly — adj 1. cunning, crafty, wily, artful, subtle, foxy. Sl. crazy like a fox, Scot, and North Eng. pawky; shrewd, astute, canny, sharp, knowing, Inf. cagey. 2. covert, clandestine, undercover, stealthy, surreptitious, feline, back alley, Canon Law.… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
sly — adj British an all purpose term of disapproval fash ionable in the later 1990s. It was defined on the Internet by Bodge World in March 1997 … Contemporary slang
sly — adj. == cunning. Ps. viii. 4. RG. 350. ON. slægr. Dan. slu … Oldest English Words
sly — [[t]sla͟ɪ[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n A sly look, expression, or remark shows that you know something that other people do not know or that was meant to be a secret. His lips were spread in a sly smile... He gave me a sly, meaningful look.… … English dictionary
sly — slyly, slily, adv. slyness, n. /sluy/, adj., slyer or slier, slyest or sliest, n. adj. 1. cunning or wily: sly as a fox. 2. stealthy, insidious, or secret … Universalium
