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How to use sly in a sentence

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A sly glint came to his eye then, as if he was about to say something mischievous.
His hair will be carefully dishevelled, he will be unshaven, and he will wear a sly grin.
She secretly envied the maid for her ability to remain so sly and untouched by pain.
Each side tries to take the scientific high ground, pointing to the gender split with a cough or a sly look.
Was he also taking a sly dig at the Canadian pretense that we don't engage in American dreaming?
His eyebrows were raised, mouth puckered, his eyes sly, defying me to ask more questions.
This grimly comical tone, with its overtly sly humor, is what ultimately elevates the film to a level of near brilliance.
He knew the locations of the sly groggeries, brothels, bookie outlets, and gambling and booze dens.
He was sharply perceptive and had an earthy, sly humour which put an edge on his nice irony.
This sly charmer is so small that everyone and everything towers above him.
The artist's show of drawings and paper constructions continued his sly, joyous subversion of traditional mediums.
This is just one of the reasons why this sly, sci-fi spoof of a short film is such a welcome surprise.
You just disappeared and Eileen told me that you had eloped with a man you'd been seeing on the sly.
Philip was a sly and somewhat oleaginous character but also an effective, resolute, and respected king.
Unfaithful, sly, smooth-talking and quick-witted, 350 million people tuned in from around the world to find out who shot him.
Once a sly grogger had been convicted and paid his fine, he was in grave jeopardy.
Scotch was so scarce it was not unusual for empty bottles to be refilled with fake stuff and sold off in dark alleyways by sly groggers.
In 1883 a riot erupted at the Mackay racecourse when a sly grog dealer refused to serve the Islanders, who responded by throwing bottles.
Photographs convey their singularity and pragmatic making, but don't capture their sly humor and evocativeness.
He had on a sly grin and cackled louder and louder as he made his way closer to her.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And now, her wry sly smile, peeping from underneath her battered hat-brim, meets me at every back-street corner.
Every castle had its tale of redcap, the sly spirit, or of the woman of the hairy hand.
Its chief food is the seal and beluga, while its sly disposition enables it also to capture the water birds.
There was another sly little devil lying in wait to trip me up and land me smashing on the reefs of vatu Leile.
I know the girl for a sly, scheming, hoity-toity flirt, but to think that she'd act so low like!
He spites him by damaging his plants all he can in a sly and ingenious way.
But I had only to open my lips to speak, and away she would run, with a sly smile.
Leaving his man outside with the horses he advanced with a confident, sly smile, and without a word up to the long trestle table.
He is sly, Mr. skidder, like there never has been in my experience a man more sly.
I was eighteen, and I had been for a long time looked upon at the lycee as a sly practical joker.
Could this have been but a sly trick to get the lasses from their beds betimes?
I am making no complaint of the sly satisfaction which Alice seemingly takes in twitting me with my weakness.
Queen Caroline was a mimsy, out-moded woman, a sly serio, who gadded hither and thither shrieking for the unbecoming.
He saw a short word prepared for Emma, and given to her with a look sly and demure.
There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.
You have to visit your disreputable cousin on the sly, have you?
Undoubtedly the nicest way to get married is on the sly, and indeed it is at present becoming quite fashionable.
Shiraz displayed his teeth more plainly than ever in a sly smile.
His manner was smooth and humble, but very sly and slinking.
What a sly devil I was to stow that treasure away for a rainy day!
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