sly
Example Sentences
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Unlike a lot of titles on the self-help shelves, Gilberg’s book promises no sly little hack to happiness, no “you’ve-been-thinking-about-this-all-wrong” twist.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026
"Nobody had agreed to it at all. Really sly," fellow chorister Kevin Doughty says in Con Jones: World's Best Conman.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
Here, it is a man whose labor disappears behind a woman’s byline, a sly inversion of the far more familiar historical pattern.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025
Billy Stewart’s 1966 hit and Eddie Jefferson’s 1977 hip transformation pushed “Summertime” into new territory—the former jubilant and explosive, the latter sly and urbane.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
“Tell the Father Abbot what you want, sly one.” she rasped sternly.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing sly
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Scrabble: Words with no Vowels
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