One of Baker's slyest achievements is that by the end of the novel Tom's affair with Slim has also been linked to the operations of the Big Crowd. |
The film, though, directed by Malcolm Mowbray, isn't quite savvy enough to compete with the slyest entries in that genre or madcap enough to run with the zaniest. |
It's the slyest trick the old fox has ever tried to play on us. |
But my Uncle Diego is the slyest Galician born in this century. |
The coyote, or prairie-wolf, is the slyest animal that walks on four legs. |
He makes merry over the weaknesses of those who follow the craft of Old Izaak, always with the slyest of genial manners. |