Is slyest a word

crafty; artful.
Definition of ‘sliest’ 1. crafty; artful. a sly dodge. 2. insidious; furtive.

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  • 1 How do you spell Sliest?
  • 2 Is being sly a good thing?
  • 3 What is the full meaning of Sly?
  • 4 Is Slier a word?
  • 5 What does Sligh mean?
  • 6 What is a Sligh?
  • 7 What is another word for Sly?
  • 8 Does Sly mean sneaky?
  • 9 Does Sly mean smart?
  • 10 How can I be sly?
  • 11 What type of word is sly?
  • 12 How do you use sly in a sentence?
  • 13 What does Canuckle mean?
  • 14 Is it Slyer or Slier?
  • 15 Which is correct shyer or Shier?
  • 16 Is Dawdly a word?
  • 17 What nationality is Sligh?
  • 18 What does a sly fox mean?
  • 19 Is Sligh Furniture still in business?
  • 20 What is a sly smile?

How do you spell Sliest?

Sliest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sliest.

Is being sly a good thing?

When you’re sly, you’re crafty, cunning, tricky, and wily. Being sly is being deceitful, though not in the worst way. If you’re good at lying, you’re quite sly: people who are sly are good at pulling one over on other people. Being sly helps you get away with things.

What is the full meaning of Sly?

sly, cunning, crafty, wily, tricky, foxy, artful, slick mean attaining or seeking to attain one’s ends by guileful or devious means. sly implies furtiveness, lack of candor, and skill in concealing one’s aims and methods.

Is Slier a word?

Yes, slier is in the scrabble dictionary.

What does Sligh mean?

sly
sligh (comparative more sligh, superlative most sligh) Obsolete form of sly.

What is a Sligh?

Sligh is a sub-archetype of the aggro archetype. So named after Paul Sligh, who took second place with it in an Atlanta PTQ in 1996. The philosophy of the “Sligh principle” was already invented in 1994 by Jay Schneider. Sligh popularized the idea of a mana curve.

What is another word for Sly?

Some common synonyms of sly are artful, crafty, cunning, foxy, slick, tricky, and wily. While all these words mean “attaining or seeking to attain one’s ends by guileful or devious means,” sly implies furtiveness, lack of candor, and skill in concealing one’s aims and methods.

Does Sly mean sneaky?

Find another word for sneaky. In this page you can discover 46 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sneaky, like: devious, surreptitious, sly, deceitful, underhanded, dishonest, clandestine, conniving, tricky, stealthy and duplicitous.

Does Sly mean smart?

The definition of sly is someone or something that is clever in a deceitful or cunning way.

How can I be sly?

Ask questions about the things someone is talking about, in order to keep them talking.
Be secretive.

  1. This way, people will know less about you. When they do find things out about you, they might be surprised.
  2. Do good deeds when no one is watching.
  3. Make a game out of disclosing as few details as possible.

What type of word is sly?

Sly can be an adverb or an adjective.

How do you use sly in a sentence?

Examples from Collins dictionaries
His lips were spread in a sly smile. He gave me a sly, meaningful look. She is devious and sly and manipulative. He’s a sly old beggar if ever there was one.

What does Canuckle mean?

The brainchild of Ottawa resident, Mark Rogers, Canuckle is a Wordle-based guessing game that challenges the player to guess a five-letter word that in some way relates to Canada. The mystery word could be anything from a word, place, or simple Canadianism – if it’s tied to Canada, it goes.

Is it Slyer or Slier?

“Sly” (= wily, cunning, sneaky) preferably makes “slyer,” “slyest,” and “slyly.” But some writers use the variant spellings *”slier,” *”sliest,” and *”slily” — e.g.: o “The land has been creeping slily [read ‘slyly’] out to sea for the last twenty centuries or so.” Steven Moore, “The Beast in the Vatican,” Wash.

Which is correct shyer or Shier?

Both are acceptable in the U.S., however “shier” is the preferred spelling in American English and “shyer” is the proper spelling in the Queen’s English.

Is Dawdly a word?

verb (used without object), daw·dled, daw·dling. to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: Stop dawdling and help me with these packages! to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter. verb (used with object), daw·dled, daw·dling.

What nationality is Sligh?

Scottish
Scottish: variant of Sly .

What does a sly fox mean?

person artfully cunning
show ▼person artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.

Is Sligh Furniture still in business?

COMPANY HISTORY
1932: Sligh furniture Co. liquidates assets and closes its doors.

What is a sly smile?

DEFINITIONS2. a sly smile, look, or remark shows that the person doing it knows something that other people do not know.

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sly

 (slī)

adj. sli·er (slī′ər), sli·est (slī′ĕst) also sly·er or sly·est

1. Clever or cunning, especially in the practice of deceit.

2. Stealthy or surreptitious: took a sly look at the letter on the table.

3. Playfully mischievous: a sly laugh.

Idiom:

on the sly

In a way intended to escape notice: took extra payments on the sly.


[Middle English sleigh, from Old Norse slœgr.]


sly′ly adv.

sly′ness n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

sly

(slaɪ)

adj, slyer, slyest, slier or sliest

1. crafty; artful: a sly dodge.

2. insidious; furtive: a sly manner.

3. playfully mischievous; roguish: sly humour.

n

on the sly in a secretive manner

[C12: from Old Norse slǣgr clever, literally: able to strike, from slā to slay]

ˈslyly, ˈslily adv

ˈslyness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

sly

(slaɪ)

adj. sly•er sli•er, sly•est sli•est, adj.

1. cunning or wily.

2. stealthy; surreptitious.

3. mischievous or roguish: sly humor.

n.

4. on the sly, secretly; furtively.

Idiom.

[1175–1225; Middle English sly, sley < Old Norse slŒgr sly, cunning]

sly′ly, adv.

sly′ness, n.

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj. 1. sly — 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 Dick»; «a wily old attorney»

artful — marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; «the artful dodger»; «an artful choice of metaphors»

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

sly

adjective

2. cunning, scheming, devious, secret, clever, subtle, tricky, covert, astute, wily, insidious, crafty, artful, furtive, conniving, Machiavellian, shifty, foxy, underhand, stealthy, guileful She is devious, sly and manipulative.
cunning open, direct, frank, straightforward, honest, trustworthy, above-board, artless, ingenuous, guileless

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

sly

adjective

The American Heritage® Roget’s Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Translations

mazanýprohnanýzáludnýzlomyslný

snedigsnuunderfundig

viekas

prepreden

glettinnkænn, slóttugur

ずるい

교활한

draiskulīgsnodevīgsviltīgs

nagajivzvit

slug

ซึ่งมีเล่ห์เหลี่ยม อย่างฉลาดแกมโกง

ranh mãnh

sly

[slaɪ]

A. ADJ (slyer (compar) (slyest (superl)))

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sly

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sly

[slaɪ]

1. adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (wily) → astuto/a, scaltro/a; (secretive) → furtivo/a; (mischievous, trick) → birbone/a; (smile) → sornione/a, malizioso/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

sly

(slai) adjective

1. cunning or deceitful. He sometimes behaves in rather a sly manner.

2. playfully mischievous. He made a sly reference to my foolish mistake.

ˈslyly, ˈslily adverbˈslyness noun

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

sly

كَتُوم mazaný snedig listig πονηρός malicioso, taimado viekas rusé prepreden scaltro ずるい 교활한 sluw slu przebiegły dissimulado хитрый slug ซึ่งมีเล่ห์เหลี่ยม อย่างฉลาดแกมโกง kurnaz ranh mãnh 狡猾的

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

Definitions For Slyest

Adjective

{{en-superlative of, sly}}

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Examples of Slyest in a Sentence

  • The movie pairs a sly, dissembling ex-con with an upstanding, straight-arrow cop
  • Why, you sly fellow! I had no idea you were planning my birthday party

Antonyms for Slyest

artless

guileless

ingenuous

innocent

undesigning

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When you’re sly, you’re crafty, cunning, tricky, and wily. Being sly is being deceitful, though not in the worst way.

Definitions


adj

Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.


adj

(having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice


adj

Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle


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adj

Light or delicate; slight; thin.

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If you’re good at lying, you’re quite sly: people who are sly are good at pulling one over on other people. Being sly helps you get away with things. If you made a mess in your house but got your parents to blame the dog, that was sly. Being sly means you’re not being honest, but this word has kind of a harmless flavor to it. Someone who killed someone and lied about it would not be described as sly. Slyness has to do with smaller, sneakier, more harmless kinds of lying.

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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [slahy]
    • /slaɪ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [slahy]
    • /slaɪ/

Definitions of slyest word

  • adjective slyest cunning or wily: sly as a fox. 1
  • adjective slyest stealthy, insidious, or secret. 1
  • adjective slyest playfully artful, mischievous, or roguish: sly humor. 1
  • idioms slyest on the sly, secretly; furtively: a tryst on the sly. 1

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Origin of slyest

First appearance:

before 1150

One of the 7% oldest English words

1150-1200; Middle English sly, sley, from Old Norse slœgr “sly, cunning” (originally “able to strike, able to slay”); see slay

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slyest popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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