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
These jokes expired about the time Twitter’s co-founders taught Oprah how to tweet on the air in 2009, and yet here they are, on one of the slyest shows on television in 2013.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2013
He was riveting, but in the slyest possible way.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 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 my Uncle Diego is the slyest Galician born in this century.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s
