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Webster 1913 Edition


Slily

Sli′ly

,
adv.
See
Slyly
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South.

Webster 1828 Edition


Slily

SLILY

,
adv.
[from sly.] With artful or dexterous secrecy. Satan slily robs us of our grand treasure.

Definition 2024


slily

slily

English

Adverb

slily (comparative more slily, superlative most slily)

  1. 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.

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Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈslɪlɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlɪ
  • Homophone: slili

Verb

slily

  1. masculine inanimate plural past participle of slít
  2. feminine plural past participle of slít