sly

Definition of sly in English English dictionary: Light or delicate; slight; thin; Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick; Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; — in a good sense; Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily; Slyly; {a} cunning, artful, crafty, insidious, waggish; {s} crafty, cunning; secretive, stealthy; mischievous, playful; disapproval If you describe someone as sly, you disapprove of them because they keep their feelings or intentions hidden and are clever at deceiving people. She is devious and sly and manipulative = cunning; A sly look, expression, or remark shows that you know something that other people do not know or that was meant to be a secret. His lips were spread in a sly smile + slyly sly·ly Anna grinned slyly; Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; - in a good sense; marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik"; "a wily old attorney"; Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; in a good sense; sleigh
sly as a fox: Very sly, very cunning
Sly and the Family Stone: American funk/soul group from the 1960s and 1970s
sly as a fox: cunning and mischievous as a fox, wily as a fox
sly dog: person who is sneaky and lies and cheats with great perfection (whom no one suspects until it is too late)
on the sly: Slyly, in an inconspicuous manner, so as not to be seen; secretly; stealthily
This diversion was enjoyed on the sly, and unknown to the ladies of the house.
slyly: In a sly manner, cunningly
slyly: Dexterously, skilfully
He wolde nat abyde uppon no poure man for no maner of thyng – and ever he slow slyly and slypped to another, tylle all were slayne to the numbir of a hondred thousand .
slyness: The state or quality of being being sly
With his natural slyness, he was able to talk his way out of trouble.
slyness: The result or product of being sly
slily: {a} with secret artifice, cunningly
slyly: {a} with secret artifice, cunningly
Slyly: sly
on the sly: furtively: in a furtive manner; "the soldiers were furtively crawling through the night"
on the sly: stealthily, in a sneaky manner
sli: Statement of Legislative Intent
sli: Specific Language Impairment (see below)
sli: Scan Line Interleaving A technique where 2 or more 3D processors are used in parallel Each processor renders only a fraction of the scanlines in the final image This lets you achieve much higher framerates in games
sli: Speech and Language Impaired Children who are not developing speech and language in a normal sequence
sli: Scan Line Interlace, is a method of having two cards do the work of one Two Voodoo2 cards can be placed in your computer side-by-side and connected by a short computer cable When this happens, one will process all the odd-numbered scan lines, and the other will process all the even-numbered scan lines, so performance goes up by about 50%, and the effective frame buffer is doubled Texture memory, however, is duplicated in both cards
sli: Devices with greater than 100k gates with at least one programmable core and on-chip memory Also known as system-on-silicon *
sli: Scanline Interleave is a mode in which two Pixelfx are connected and render in alternate turns, one handling odd, the other handling even scanlines of the actual output Each Pixelfx stores only half of the image and half of the depth buffer data in its own local framebuffer, effectively doubling the number of pixels
slier: comparative of sly
sliest: superlative of sly
slily: cunningly, craftily, guilefully; stealthily, secretively; mischievously, playfully
slyly: In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily
slyly: cunningly, craftily, guilefully; stealthily, secretively; mischievously, playfully
slyly: in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?"
slyness: Condition of being sly
slyness: The quality or state of being sly
slyness: {i} craftiness, cunning; secretiveness, stealth; mischievousness, playfulness
slyness: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

sly

Turkish pronunciation

slay

Synonyms

artful, cunning, knowing, sharp, crafty, shrewd, shifty, sly as a fox, slim, wily, arch, astute, bluffing, cagey, calculating

Antonyms

honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever

Pronunciation

/ˈslī/ /ˈslaɪ/

Etymology

[ 'slI ] (adjective.) 13th century. From Middle English sly, sley, from Old Norse slǣgr, slœgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”). Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian slu (“sly”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Related to sleight, slay.

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