Sly [adjective]
Definition of Sly:
clever, devious
Synonyms of Sly:
● Impish
● Shrewd
● Roguish
● Canny
● Subtle
● Smart
● Arch
● Artful
● Astute
● Cagey
● Captious
● Covert
● Crafty
● Crooked
● Cunning
● Delusive
● Elusive
● Foxy
● Furtive
● Illusory
● Mean
● Scheming
● Secret
● Sharp
● Shifty
● Slick
● Smooth
● Stealthy
● Tricky
● Wily
● Guileful
● Sneaking
● Bluffing
● Plotting
Opposite/Antonyms of Sly:
Sentence/Example of Sly:
"Let them sleep in the bed of honor," said the Princess Medea, with a sly smile at Jason.
The sly, wicked Mimi came slinking to the place where the dragon lay.
I know her sly manner of feeling her way with those gloves of hers.
The faces seemed to have but one smile, conscious, sly, a little alarmed.
But I had only to open my lips to speak, and away she would run, with a sly smile.
You have to visit your disreputable cousin on the sly, have you?
All the sly blabbing, all the vague chatter of sacristies resounded in his ears.
What a sly devil I was to stow that treasure away for a rainy day!
“Yes; the same hands,” with a sly smile at his own private joke.
Crawford had written that this photograph, too, had been taken on the sly.