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31sly — mod. excellent; cool. □ Look at Jim’s sly new ride. □ That is really a sly jacket you got there …
32sly — See: ON THE SLY …
33sly — See: ON THE SLY …
34sly — 1. adjective /slaɪ/ a) Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. b) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; in a good sense. Syn: artful, cunning, knowing, sharp, crafty …
35sly — adj. Sly is used with these nouns: ↑dig, ↑grin, ↑humour, ↑look, ↑smile, ↑wink, ↑wit …
36sly — [12] Etymologically, sly means ‘able to hit’. It was borrowed from Old Norse slǣgr ‘clever, cunning’, which went back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *slakh , *slag , *slōg ‘hit’ (source also of English slaughter, slay, etc). The… …
37sly — See: on the sly …
38sly — adjective (slyer, slyest) 1》 having a cunning and deceitful nature. 2》 (of a remark, glance, or expression) insinuating. 3》 (of an action) surreptitious. Phrases on the sly in a surreptitious fashion. Derivatives slyly (also slily) adverb slyness …
39sly — adj 1. cunning, crafty, wily, artful, subtle, foxy. Sl. crazy like a fox, Scot, and North Eng. pawky; shrewd, astute, canny, sharp, knowing, Inf. cagey. 2. covert, clandestine, undercover, stealthy, surreptitious, feline, back alley, Canon Law.… …
40sly — [slaɪ] adj clever at tricking people or at hurting them without them realizing it I noticed his sly smile.[/ex] …