sly - What does it mean?

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(Webster 1913)

* (l) (obsolete)

Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.

Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; — in a good sense.

Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.

Light or delicate; slight; thin.

(top2) * artful * cunning * knowing * sharp * crafty (mid2) * shrewd * shifty * sly as a fox * slim * wily (bottom) * See also

* sly as a fox (rel-mid3) * slyboots (rel-mid3) * slyness (rel-bottom)

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