slyness

IPA: sɫˈaɪnʌs

noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being sly.
  • (countable) The result or product of being sly.
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Examples of "slyness" in Sentences

  • Clown served as a foil for Harlequin's slyness and adroit nature.
  • For example, the slyness and wittiness of foxes has remained constant.
  • "But when their slyness is known their case is mortal," said Longarine.
  • And -- most important -- the emotion (a kind of slyness) that came to him from the "noise" in the being's brain.
  • Sly and the Family Stone: You've got the slyness of "Sly" and the family-ness of "Family," but together with a straight-on drug reference.
  • I slowly watched the slyness of daylight creep into the curtains before I exhausted myself to sleep and wondered why I should be living when my sister was gone.
  • One of the Polish students was Klara, about 24, rather small, with the classic Slavic look: clear skin, good cheekbones, a pouty mouth, and a slyness in her blue eyes.
  • At such times there is no trace of hatred or spite in his eyes, but a great deal of humour, and that peculiar fox-like slyness which is only to be noticed in very observant people.
  • With her capacity for slyness and secrecy – just as she had when she wrote about giving birth to Sharon, keeping her contractions secret because she didn't want to have to go into hospital – she hid her illness.
  • The quiet ways of the Friends, and their habits of self-restraint developed in them a kind of slyness that peculiarly fitted them, sharpened as it was by a love of money, to make a successful and profitable bargain.
  • She is the pretty, good-natured, well-principled, and rather well-educated menial, whose prudence comes to the aid of her principles, whose pride does not interfere with either, and who has a certain -- it is hardly unfair to call it -- slyness which is of the sex rather than of the individual.

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