SLY meaning: Cunningly clever at being deceitful

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word sly:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

sly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sly: Merriam-Webster
Sly, sly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
sly: Collins English Dictionary
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Sly, sly: Wordnik
sly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Sly, sly: Wiktionary
sly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
sly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
sly: Infoplease Dictionary
sly: Dictionary.com
sly: Online Etymology Dictionary
sly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Sly (Massive Attack song), Sly (The Cat Empire song), Sly (band), Sly (disambiguation), Sly (opera), Sly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Sly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
sly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
sly: Rhymezone
sly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
sly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sly: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
Sly: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
sly: FreeDictionary.org
sly: Mnemonic Dictionary
sly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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sly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

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SLY: Three Letter Words with definitions
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sly: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

sly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Sly: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Similar:

cunning, guileful, tricksy, wily, artful, crafty, dodgy, tricky, knavish, slick, more...

Opposite:

honest, straightforward, candid, open, frank

Types:

cunning, wily, crafty, guileful, slick, foxy, roguish, tricky, sneaky, more...

Phrases:

sly fox, christopher sly, sly grog, sly syndrome, sly boots, more...

Adjectives:

old, drunken, black, drunk, devilish, awful, beloved, late, little, vilish, poor

Colors:

silver, charcoal, midnight blue, slate gray, ash gray, more...