SLY in a Sentence
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55 example sentences for SLY, such as:
1. He leaned forward with a sly smile.
2. Don't trust him, he is a sly old fox.
3. He cast a sly glance at his bridge partner.
4. People consider foxes as clever but sly animals.
5. But Lizzy, you have been very sly, very reserved with me.
2. Don't trust him, he is a sly old fox.
3. He cast a sly glance at his bridge partner.
4. People consider foxes as clever but sly animals.
5. But Lizzy, you have been very sly, very reserved with me.
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Meanings and Examples of SLY
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sly
a. marked by skill in deception
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1 A second look showed her that the living eyes, under the bushy eyebrows, were kinder even than the painted ones, and there was a sly twinkle in them, which lessened her fear a good deal.
2 No one was very near, and running up to examine, he gave it a sly nudge with his toe, which put it just an inch on the right side.
3 But the sly dog dived, came up under the man-of-war, scuttled her, and down she went, with all sail set, 'To the bottom of the sea, sea, sea' where.
4 "I'll try, but it was a very ungentlemanly thing to do, I didn't think you could be so sly and malicious, Laurie," replied Meg, trying to hide her maidenly confusion under a gravely reproachful air.
5 Mr. Laurence gave her a sharp look, and put on his spectacles, saying slowly, "You're a sly puss, but I don't mind being managed by you and Beth."
6 We flew up, and hid behind the curtains, but sly peeps showed us Fred and the students singing away down below.
7 In this way, the sly old gentleman got round proud Jo, and furnished her with the style of boy in which she most delighted.
8 But Lizzy, you have been very sly, very reserved with me.
9 Catherine took a sly look at him, expressing small admiration.
10 'The younger generation have grown awfully sly,' remarked Bazarov, and he too laughed.
11 You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed--a palace at which one will not be able to put out one's tongue or make a long nose on the sly.
12 A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on the sly what was left in the glasses.
13 "Boris, come here," said she with a sly and significant look.
14 His eyes too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the next glanced round in alarm.
15 Ah, I know, I know," she said with a sly glance, "your brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on.
Example Sentence:
1 His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin bristly with a coarse, hard beard; his face never clean, but always distorted with a ghastly grin.
2 And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear!
3 Don't trust him, he is a sly old fox.
4 People consider foxes as clever but sly animals.
5 He leaned forward with a sly smile.
6 He cast a sly glance at his bridge partner.