Usually means: Cleverly secretive, cunning, or deceptive.
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  1. slyly: Merriam-Webster
  2. slyly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slyly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. slyly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Slyly, slyly: Wordnik
  6. slyly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. slyly: Wiktionary
  8. slyly: Dictionary.com
  9. slyly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Slyly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. slyly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. slyly: Rhymezone
  13. Slyly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. slyly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. slyly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. slyly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. slyly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. slyly: Legal dictionary

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  1. slyly: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (slyly)

▸ adverb:  In a sly manner, cunningly.

Similar:
craftily, cunningly, knavishly, trickily, foxily, artfully, on the sly, sneakily, deviously, cleverishly, more...

Opposite:
candidly, frankly, outright, bluntly

Phrases:
criticize slyly, to look at slyly, smile slyly, slyly sarcastic, smiled slyly, more...

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Similar:
craftily, cunningly, knavishly, trickily, foxily, artfully, on the sly, sneakily, deviously, cleverishly, more...

Opposite:
candidly, frankly, outright, bluntly

Phrases:
criticize slyly, to look at slyly, smile slyly, slyly sarcastic, smiled slyly, slyly say, to say slyly, trying to find out something slyly, opposite of slyly, looks slyly, asked slyly, more...

Colors:
    silver,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     slate gray,     olive, more...



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