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Webster 1913 Edition
Slily
Webster 1828 Edition
Slily
SLILY
,adv.
Definition 2024
slily
slily
English
Adverb
slily (comparative more slily, superlative most slily)
- Alternative spelling of slyly
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water […]
- 1899, Knut Hamsun, Hunger, translated by George Egerton, Part II, page 103
- I lie there on the stretcher-bed and laugh slily, but say nothing; give vent to no opinion one way or the other.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈslɪlɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɪlɪ
- Homophone: slili
Verb
slily
- masculine inanimate plural past participle of slít
- feminine plural past participle of slít