Usually means: Cunningly clever at being deceitful.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Sly, sly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sly, sly: Wordnik
  7. sly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sly, sly: Wiktionary
  9. sly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sly: Dictionary.com
  13. sly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sly (Massive Attack song), Sly (The Cat Empire song), Sly (band), Sly (disambiguation), Sly (opera), Sly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sly: Rhymezone
  19. sly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Sly: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Sly: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. sly: Free Dictionary
  24. sly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Sly, sly: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. sly: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sly: Legal dictionary

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  1. sly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLY: Acronym Finder
  2. SLY: Three Letter Words with definitions
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  4. sly: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sly: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
adjective:  (having a positive connotation) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
adjective:  Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
adjective:  Light or delicate; slight; thin.
adverb:  Slyly.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Sylvester.

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