slily
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Then, slily combining his oldtime East Side accent with the local vernacular, he said: "I hope to meet yez-all personally before I leave."
From Time Magazine Archive
Some indulgence was bestowed, which was to be kept profoundly secret from the governess; or some neglected task was to be slily performed by proxy.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
‘Have you no pity for a poor mother?’ asked the fox, putting her tail to her eyes, but peeping slily out of them all the same.
From The Orange Fairy Book by Various
They easily knew the shape of a stranger, or the voice of one either, and used to slide slily away if any person unfamiliar to them appeared on the scene.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon
"Wouldn't you?" exclaims Pendell, looking slily at me and beginning to laugh, evidently in anticipation of some capital story, or a witticism from Ruddock.
From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 62, January 20, 1872 by Various
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