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单词 sly
释义
sly
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adj

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. 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.
WORD FAMILY
sly: slier, sliest, slily, slyer, slyest, slyly, slyness+/slyness: slynesses
USAGE EXAMPLES
Fry’s film is a sly satire that still resonates today.
Salon(Dec 31, 2016)
As a major architect of funk, George Clinton deserves a place in music history alongside James Brown and Sly Stone.
The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016)
At the time, it sounded somewhere between false modesty and sly self-deprecation.
The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016)
adj marked by skill in deception
sly as a fox
Syn
crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, tricksy, tricky, wily
artful
marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft
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