sly
adjective
cunning or wily.
slyest
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superlativeof sly.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Peter Debruge in Variety noted "of all the satirists working in cinema today, Östlund displays perhaps the slyest streak of dark humor."
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2014
I’d just marry whichever girl flaunted—over the course of several rec-hall dances and town-square picnics—the slyest wit and the cutest smile.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013
“Cunning is what counts in life, and even that you’ve got to use in the slyest way you can,” Smith says at one point.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2010
Where the network’s “True Detective” occasionally broke its dolefulness with the slyest, philosophically artful wink at an audience riveted by its mystery, “The Leftovers” grafts more unhappiness onto unhappiness.
From Washington Post
But really it is the most characteristic expression of our time, using the accustomed forms of verse to point the neatest criticisms and the slyest of epigrams....
From The Battle of the Bays by Sir Owen Seaman
