sly
21sly — 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 …
22Sly — This interesting surname is of early medieval English origin, and is from a nickname for a cunning or crafty individual, derived from the Midland and Southern Middle English (1200 1500) sligh , sly, earlier slegh , from the Old Norse slaefr .… …
23sly — /slaɪ / (say sluy) adjective (slyer or slier, slyest or sliest) 1. cunning or wily, as persons or animals, or their actions, ways, etc. 2. stealthy, insidious, or secret. 3. playfully artful, mischievous, or roguish: sly humour. 4. illicit;… …
24sly — adjective 1 very clever in the way that you use tricks and dishonesty to get what you want: The way he did it was really sly. 2 sly smile/glance/wink etc a smile, look etc shows that you are hiding something you know from other people: She gave… …
25sly — mea·sly; sly; sly·ly; sly·ness; tou·sly; …
26sly — UK [slaɪ] / US adjective Word forms sly : adjective sly comparative slier superlative sliest 1) a sly smile, look, or remark shows that the person doing it knows something that other people do not know He made a sly reference to the events of the …
27sly — adjective 1) she s rather sly Syn: cunning, crafty, clever, wily, artful, guileful, tricky, scheming, devious, deceitful, duplicitous, dishonest, underhanded, sneaky; archaic subtle 2) a sly grin …
28sly — adjective 1) she s very sly Syn: cunning, crafty, clever, wily, artful, tricky, scheming, devious, underhand, sneaky 2) a sly grin Syn: roguish, mis …
29sly — 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)… …
30sly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cunning, furtive, wily; crafty, deceitful, stealthy, underhand; roguish, mischievous. See concealment. Ant., artless. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Crafty] Syn. wily, tricky, foxy, shifty, insidious,… …
