Sly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense.
• Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
• Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
• Light or delicate; slight; thin.
• Slyly.
I:
• secretly; furtively: a tryst on the sly.
ADJECTIVE [SLY·ER, SLY·EST.]:
• cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
• stealthy, insidious, or secret.
• playfully artful, mischievous, or roguish: sly humor.
ADJECTIVE:
• cunning, wily; surreptitious
• crafty
• marked by skill in deception

Words related to SLY

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How to use SLY in a sentence

• The romance of such an adventure hit her youthful fancy, while the idea of getting even a sly peep at Rosa filled her with delight.
• He paused with a tightening throat, for the form on the bed seemed moving, too, with sly and scarcely perceptible gestures.
• During the past week he had indulged in sundry sly purchases, which had been shipped, in his name to Chazy Junction, the nearest railway station to Millville.
• She looked at the young man in a bold, provoking, significant manner, and then, like Santerre, cast a sly glance of mocking contempt at Marianne and Valentine.
• The sly old fox! I little guessed his intent when he asked me to make him governor of the paltry little province of Kyong-ju.
• But the sly look, sometimes without a trace of laughter in her face, was the only answer.
• He was a sly fellow, and immediately began to flatter his host into good humor.
• An old Fox, crafty and sly, had a den in the rocks, on a hill near her house.
• Oh, but how horribly scared I am she’ll come some sly dodge on me when I’m not expecting it, and smell out the place where the gold is hidden.
• Fosdyke indulged her sly sense of humor in a new way.
• There was another sly visit to the chilly spare chamber.
• I was at least sly enough to take up a book, and pretend to be reading it.
• Late that night, however, breaking training rules for the tenth time, Fred was out on the sly to meet Tip Scammon.
• When the prior found that his sly conduct did not produce the effect which he had expected, he remained so confused that he knew not what farther to say on the occasion.
• The man was so sly, so calm, so guarded, that the thought of him being on the look-out for me, to sell me to the Dutch captains, almost scared me out of my wits.
• We are only happy on the sly, my dear friend, but what is to be done? Happiness is not so sacred a thing that it should only be accepted when derived from perfect reason.
• The sly fox, understanding her meaning, yet longing to get his companion into trouble, pretended not to know how to read, and sent the wolf to ascertain the price.
• Last night a sly fox took off our best duck! Run for a gun! there a hen hawk flies! We always have the very worst of luck, The anxious mistress of the chickens cries.
• Once or twice I caught him looking about the room on the sly.
• A slave stole the dainties, and drained a beaker of costly wine on the sly.
• Then it occurred to him that the night was particularly favorable for a sly peep at the pirates.
• Murray was sly and avaricious, but, had he been legitimate, Scotland would have been well governed under his vigour and caution.
• But it is a very sly, knowing look, if you take pains to stare boldly into his eyes.

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