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sly /slaɪ/ adjective 1. INTELLIGENTsomeone who is sly cleverly deceives people in order to get what they want 狡猾的，狡诈的 SYN cunning► see thesaurus at dishonest2 sly smile/glance/wink etc SECRETa smile, look etc that shows you know something secret 诡秘的微笑/一瞥/眨眼等 He leaned forward with a sly smile. 他俯身向前诡秘地一笑。3 on the sly informalSECRET secretly, especially when you are doing something that you should not do 秘密地，偷偷地，暗地里 They’d been seeing each other on the sly for months. 他们已经偷偷约会了好几个月。 —slyly adverb —slyness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpussly• I won't be party to your bitching yourself on the sly.• Children of that age can be very sly.• My parents didn't approve, but we continued to meet on the sly.• Eliot looked sly and deceitful, as though he wasn't telling us the whole truth.• I began to dislike her; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she'd spoken to me like that.• He wanted to forget that she was sly and spiteful and malicious.• Manshin Anjima gave me a sly look and wrote down the name of her cemetery.• A sly look crossed his face when Patsy mentioned the money.• The sly old Congressman knows what it takes to get elected.• He's a sly old devil isn't he! Nobody knew he had as much money as that!• How the sly one squeaked, howled, sizzled, hissed, and swelled his hairy carapace!• Mitchell was shocked to see the man signaling him with sly winks.Origin sly (1200-1300) Old Norse slgrsly adjectiveChinese deceives people cleverly who in Corpus is someone sly |