Example Sentences

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That it got made before the strict enforcement of the Production Code allowed for a few more liberties than would shortly be permitted, but its bedrock slyness and winking tone are elemental.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

But Mill's Dortmund team-mate Norbert Dickel perhaps summed up his slyness best of all when describing him with the pun: "He is washed with all wastewaters."

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2021

The future “Pee-wee” showrunner said Paragon had a “wickedness and a slyness and ... a naughty edge” to his humor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2021

But with typical Swiftian slyness, it also means she’s unshackled herself from chronology, so nobody can predict what part of the archive she’ll plunder next.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2021

There I am in the furrow of Jack's brow, in the slyness of Alicia's smile, in the bend of Grace's hand .

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson