slyest
- superlative of sly.
Example Sentences
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Since then, he’s succeeded by preserving some of that same immediacy in more polished environs, as on “Stitches,” one of last year’s slyest and most effective pop songs.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2016
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
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
That awful screech is one of the slyest things he does.
From Children of the Wild by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
