Crossword clues for slyly
slyly
- With a wink, perhaps
- On the q.t
- In a furtive manner
- With a wink
- On the down-low
- In foxlike fashion
- In a furtive way
- In a furtive fashion
- In a cunning way
- In a conniving way
- With sleight of hand, say
- With caginess
- With an ulterior motive
- With a roguish grin
- In underhanded fashion
- In a feline way
- In a devious way
- In a devious manner
- In a cunning manner
- In a calculating way
- How cheaters deal cards
- With cunning
- With subterfuge
- On the quiet
- How to palm a card
- How to cheat
- How an April fool may be done
- In a foxy fashion
- How a card sharp plays
- With deviousness
- In a wily way
- How many winks are made
- In a foxy way
- With craftiness
- In a vulpine way
- With cunning, son locates youth leaders twice
- In a sneaky way
- In a crafty way
- With guile
- With craft
- In a sneaky manner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slyly \Sly"ly\, adv. In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
Honestly and slyly he it spent.
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (label en obsolete) dexterously, skilfully. 2 In a sly manner, cunningly.
WordNet
Usage examples of "slyly".
Even some of the recaptured prisoners, now wearing chains, who were repairing the damage to the armoury stopped work to grin slyly at him.
When Zanni got up, he scratched his head and ponderously cogitated, then smiled slyly.
Momentarily it seemed he was back in the meeting house, with Auntie Kapur slyly referring to the ways of heavenly beings.
I caught a glimpse of Reymes, slyly jerking a pebble, under his arm, through one of the windows.
Amy Howlett slouches back into her seat, settles with a wumph of wrinkled skirts, and slyly watches his approach.
He faded slyly across the street and vanished down a narrow alley a few doors from the boardinghouse where the young man had gone.
Sure enough, Lila had booby-trapped a couple of drawers by affixing a strand of hair slyly across the crack.
Into the midst of this mad mellay sprang the cavalryman, turning loose his horse, which animal, urged by shrill yells and slyly administered lashings, went tearing away over the prairie.
The dream always begins: Not that I question the sincerity of your conversion, the Nom Anor figure murmurs slyly to the traitor, but you must understand how this would look to, say, Warmaster Tsavong Lah.
By the Bullnose Morris was a nervous, pacing, slyly smoking policeman, a cigarette cupped between his fingers, the glowing tip facing backwards, as though this simple precaution might make his illicit action the less obvious.
Moreover -- and this is in deed astonishing -- he knew, thanks to his flat ear, either instantly or after some minutes of clairaudient listening, how many dead mealworms the living mealworms in a sack had to deplore, because as he slyly revealed with puckered right eye, right corner of his mouth upward and nose acceding to the movement, the sound made by living worms indicated the number of their dead.
Charles dressed in her good-quality clothing and assisted her sister until Cyn slyly questioned the propriety of this.
As soon as he was in Warden opened his eyes and grinned at them slyly.
Brooks Bros, tropical suit and cocked his feet on the desk and grinned at the innocent bottle slyly He locked his arms behind his head and settled back hopefully to wait for that Chicago stupid Jew lawyer son of a bitch Ross to come in.
Schofield, grinned a little bit at each other, slyly, and redoubled with their saluting.