slier
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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But I began to suspect he was up to something slier in the course of this 800-plus-page doorstopper.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021
Julia understands digital media—and print media, for that matter—as well as anyone I’ve ever met, and every day she made the Slate we were editing together slier and fresher and more fun.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2018
It’s only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
The hungry thousands that crowded and pushed at Willard's thought him one of them, only deeper and slier.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
He had a Sompnour ready to his hand, A slier boy was none in Engleland; For subtlely he had his espiaille,* *espionage That taught him well where it might aught avail.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
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