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Webster 1913 Edition
Slyly
Sly′ly
,adv.
In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
Honestly and
slyly
he it spent. Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Slyly
SLYLY
, SLYNESS. [See Slily, Sliness.]Definition 2024
slyly
slyly
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Alternative forms
Adverb
slyly (comparative more slyly, superlative most slyly)
- (obsolete) Dexterously, skilfully.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.V:
- He wolde nat abyde uppon no poure man for no maner of thyng—and ever he slow slyly and slypped to another, tylle all were slayne to the numbir of a hondred thousand
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.V:
- In a sly manner, cunningly.
Translations
in a sly manner
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