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How to use slyly in a sentence

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Jonathan Richman, among others, spent his prime writing this kind of slyly humorous yet evocative music.
The self-defeating nature of imperialism is slyly suggested through a dramatic reversal that exploits the notion of the white man's burden.
The mathematician proudly gave his answer, glancing at me slyly out of the corner of his eye, as if he had outdone me in some way.
Upset over the turn of events, they slyly have her removed from their home, leaving both the maid and the young daughter distraught.
He slyly let the students' horse loose while they were grinding the corn, forcing them to rush after it, forgetting the meal.
He slyly begins to manipulate the situation by playing Cyrano for both youngsters.
He uses extremely creative images of the devil and demons in order to slyly subvert our expectations.
A brief portion featured the pair chattering about the pitfalls of marriage while slyly manoeuvering around a kitchen table.
As its slyly punning title suggests, this 1999 documentary is Herzog's tribute to his doppelganger.
The great genius behind this storyline was that Ward was slyly biting the hand that fed him.
Thinking slyly and foxily about the timing and style of one's pitches is not the same as back-sliding or moving to the right.
Its characters are calculatedly charming and the script slyly ends each of its tragic notes with a sight gag.
That terrible smile of his returned slyly, as if he knew precisely what he was doing.
Sinking into the large cushion on her armchair, she smiles slyly, as if just awakened from drowsing over the book shut on her lap.
Her ruby red lips were grinning slyly as she placed her arms around her lover's neck.
She sat there with her hair pulled back, her gamine face shining, her eyes slyly crinkling, and bit on her pencil.
In contrast to the dignified silence from the other side, even slyly whispered accusations are magnified to sound deafeningly crass.
From the street, the new interventions poke and peek out slyly above rooftops and through gaps in the street frontage.
As we roam the streets, they slyly peep at us and challenge us in 20 different guises.
She lets him do the talking while slyly poking a little fun at him along the way.
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Wishing to know what they were up to, I stole slyly to where I could overhear their proceedings.
You did that very slyly, Rufus, but if they see you, there'll be all sorts of suspicion about collusion.
He had got it slyly in part exchange from the servants of a grand house some distance off.
The staff-captain did not understand these subtleties, shook his head, and smiled slyly.
Meanwhile a great black and white paper-hornet has seen his opportunity, and is soon slyly approaching behind the sipper.
Suddenly his hands tightened, and the leaf bud, watching him slyly, saw the last of suspense go out of his face.
Would slyly break his hoe-handle, too, on purpose to get rid of hoeing.
The young man looked at his fare slyly, and cordially agreed with him.
As to the rest of the blade, the master had slyly put that on one side to make himself a larding pin.
Tam Wylie probed him slyly, with a sideward glimmer in his eye.
My old friend Gershom has very slyly written a rondeau to me.
Daguenet scrutinized her slyly, sneering in his chaffing way.
I nodded and slyly opened the door enough to pass half-way out.
Boche slyly suggesting a most amusing game, the game of true confessions.
She was, the slyly watchful Diana observed, very white and tired.
Schwarz signs to her to go out, which she does, slyly smiling.
He darted a preparatory glance at Athos and Aramis, who slyly pushed their chairs a little back so as to leave themselves more space for action.
He slyly exhibited a wallet that was stuffed with paper money.
He was very pert and lively, and hopped about so close to her feet, and put his head on one side and looked at her so slyly that she asked Ben Weatherstaff a question.
Well, these tricky fairies sometimes slyly change the board on a ball night, so that it says the Gardens are to close at six-thirty for instance, instead of at seven.
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