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sly 音标拼音: [sl'ɑɪ]
a. 狡猾的,诡密的,淘气的,偷偷摸摸的 狡猾的,诡密的,淘气的,偷偷摸摸的 sly adj 1: marked by skill in deception; " cunning men often pass for wise"; " deep political machinations"; " a foxy scheme"; " a slick evasive answer"; " sly as a fox"; " tricky Dick"; " a wily old attorney" [ synonym: { crafty}, { cunning}, { dodgy}, { foxy}, { guileful}, { knavish}, { slick}, { sly}, { tricksy}, { tricky}, { wily}] Sly \ Sly\, a. [ Compar. { Slier} or { Slyer}; superl. { Sliest} or { Slyest}.] [ OE. sli, slegh, sleih, Icel. sl? gr, for sl? gr; akin to Sw. slug, Dan. slu, LG. slou, G. schlau; probably to E. slay, v. t.; cf. G. verschlagen sly. See { Slay}, v. t., and cf. { Sleight}.] 1. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense. [ 1913 Webster] Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves. -- Wyclif ( Matt. x. 16). [ 1913 Webster] Whom graver age And long experience hath made wise and sly. -- Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. [ 1913 Webster] For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness, The litle of the kingdom I possess. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick. [ 1913 Webster] Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner. -- I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Light or delicate; slight; thin. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] { By the sly}, or { On the sly}, in a sly or secret manner. [ Colloq.] " Gazed on Hetty' s charms by the sly." -- G. Eliot. { Sly goose} ( Zool.), the common sheldrake; -- so named from its craftiness. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Cunning; crafty; subtile; wily. See { Cunning}. [ 1913 Webster]
Sly \ Sly\, adv. Slyly. [ Obs. or Poetic] -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 98 Moby Thesaurus words for " sly": Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adroit, arch, artful, astute, back- door, backstairs, cagey, calculating, canny, clandestine, clever, covert, crafty, creep, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep- laid, designing, devious, dexterous, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, downy, feline, foxy, furtive, guileful, gumshoe, hidlings, hole- and- corner, hugger- mugger, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, lurk, masterful, pawky, politic, predatory, privy, quiet, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, shady, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skulk, skulking, slick, slide, slim, slink, slinking, slinky, slippery, smart, smooth, snake, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snook, sophistical, steal, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, under- the- counter, under- the- table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unfrank, unobtrusive, unscrupulous, vulpine, wary, wily
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