Examples of 'sly' in a sentence
Meaning of "sly"
Sly is used to describe someone who is clever in a deceitful or dishonest way, often implying secretive behavior
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- Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
- Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
- Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
- Light or delicate; slight; thin.
How to use "sly" in a sentence
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Sly told you that everybody is a star.
Her with that sly smile on her.
You sly looks carry lots of news.
I have been tracking his cellphone on the sly.
You are a sly little swordsman for a painter.
So do not think you are here on the sly.
You are a sly one because of the school.
He must have got out on the sly.
What a sly old fellow you are.
You have been laughing at me forever on the sly.
Sly requested that we include it in the festivities.
I used to go and meet her on the sly.
I knew you sly boots were hiding somebody.
Even now you come on the sly.
He is a sly bully and excellent at scooter racing.
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I could have followed him on the sly.
The sly artfulness is apparent only in retrospect.
I do not like him because he is sly as a fox.
You were a sly fox in your previous life.
I think you are a bit of a witch on the sly.
A sly wind blew in from the north.
Two hours on the sly is not enough.
A sly wind blewin from the north.
They called him the sly fox.
He had a sly expression as if to say it will go well.
This is the wife of the sly fox.
Men are sly and can not be trusted.
He said a few people were getting sly touches in.
Very sly when attacking its adversary.
You give some to a girl on the sly.
Your sly eye caught my heart in its prowl.
You dare pick up gasoline on the sly.
You are sly like your father.
I thought you were with him on the sly.
They can exchange sly glances and whispers.
Even the way you talk is so sly.
Priests are sly and change nothing.
We can not meet on the sly forever.
You are a sly one and no mistake.
Vicki used to fill my glass on the sly.
Keeping this on the sly has been a total mistake.
She takes her temperature on the sly.
A most sly and licentious suggestion.
When you said this was on the sly.
The implicit is sly and deceitful.
You tried to smoke a bit on the sly.
Your sly eye pierced my heart.
There is no lord more mean and sly.
The sly slow hours shall not determinate.
Trying to earn a bit of cash on the sly.
