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slyly
[ slahy-lee ]
adverb
- in a deceitful manner; cunningly:
They slyly plot to overthrow us.
- in a roguish or mischievous way:
Some were serious, while others slyly winked at the camera.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of slyly1
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Example Sentences
“The world is porous and full of holes…so you just find the cracks,” Austin says slyly.
“I like the symbolism,” Ware says slyly before reaching for a shopping cart.
He was a shy, abrupt, slyly witty, and intensely thoughtful man.
Leaving the Atocha Station A widely acclaimed debut novel with a slyly self-conscious look at a young poet just passing the time.
Slyly moving past the bushy eye-browed front clerk, I ran upstairs to my mother.
That is,' he slyly added, 'unless your father has already made a will, disinheriting you.'
She moves slyly among the bracken, and her exquisite scent serves to guide her unerringly as she works up wind.
There was Old Slade, from over on the bluff opposite, slyly cutting a sliver of salt fish from one in the bale upon which he sat.
Adelaide turned her quiet face, unflushed, unruffled, and neither laughed sillily nor looked slyly.
Barbara glanced at his thoughtful, strong face from under the edge of her picture-hat, which slyly she had rearranged.
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