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slyly - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adverb
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adverb obsolete Dexterously , skilfully .adverb sly manner, cunningly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adverb
Etymologies
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From sly + -ly .
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Examples
He employed the term slyly , knowing his somewhat puritanical publisher would not recognize it.
Black and White World: This Gun for Hire – The Bleat. 2009
Sometimes the titles slyly reflected this double nature.
Lost in Found Objects Richard B. Woodward 2011
Those words had become with her a phrase slyly to play upon.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884
He spake the old phrase slyly as, glancing round his train,
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
He spake the old phrase slyly as, glancing round his train,
Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
He spake the old phrase slyly as, glancing round his train,
Narrative and Legendary Poems: Pennsylvania Pilgrim and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
Obama also made a point in Turkey, a strategic U.S. ally whose population is overwhelmingly Muslim but which prides itself on an officially secular government, of pulling out the same middle name slyly used as a slur by some during the election campaign as a badge of honour and evidence that America remains the land of opportunity.
London Free Press - News 2009
I think that the problem is her inability to think on her feet, to speak extemporaneously about a subject she should know something about, and the blatant why she tried to 'slyly ' look at the notes as though no one would notice and as though she were a junior high student.
Sarah Palin Uses 'Cheat Notes' At Teabagger Convention 2010
I respond when I see people like you, cloked in pseudo objectivity, "slyly " pounding him down in hopes he will become a typical politician.
Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment 2009
And today was sort of funny to me, that Mitt Romney came out and kind of slyly tried to criticize this Christmas Huckabee ad by saying, you know, I hope that he's sensitive to the diversity of faiths in this country.
CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2007 2007
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