SLY in a Sentence

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55 example sentences for SLY, such as:

1. He leaned forward with a sly smile.
2. Don't trust him, he is a sly old fox.
3. He cast a sly glance at his bridge partner.
4. People consider foxes as clever but sly animals.
5. But Lizzy, you have been very sly, very reserved with me.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sly
 a.  marked by skill in deception
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  A second look showed her that the living eyes, under the bushy eyebrows, were kinder even than the painted ones, and there was a sly twinkle in them, which lessened her fear a good deal.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
2  No one was very near, and running up to examine, he gave it a sly nudge with his toe, which put it just an inch on the right side.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
3  But the sly dog dived, came up under the man-of-war, scuttled her, and down she went, with all sail set, 'To the bottom of the sea, sea, sea' where.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
4  "I'll try, but it was a very ungentlemanly thing to do, I didn't think you could be so sly and malicious, Laurie," replied Meg, trying to hide her maidenly confusion under a gravely reproachful air.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
5  Mr. Laurence gave her a sharp look, and put on his spectacles, saying slowly, "You're a sly puss, but I don't mind being managed by you and Beth."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
6  We flew up, and hid behind the curtains, but sly peeps showed us Fred and the students singing away down below.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
7  In this way, the sly old gentleman got round proud Jo, and furnished her with the style of boy in which she most delighted.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
8  But Lizzy, you have been very sly, very reserved with me.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59
9  Catherine took a sly look at him, expressing small admiration.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  'The younger generation have grown awfully sly,' remarked Bazarov, and he too laughed.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed--a palace at which one will not be able to put out one's tongue or make a long nose on the sly.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: X
12  A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on the sly what was left in the glasses.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
13  "Boris, come here," said she with a sly and significant look.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
14  His eyes too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the next glanced round in alarm.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
15  Ah, I know, I know," she said with a sly glance, "your brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin bristly with a coarse, hard beard; his face never clean, but always distorted with a ghastly grin.
2  And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear!
3  Don't trust him, he is a sly old fox.
4  People consider foxes as clever but sly animals.
5  He leaned forward with a sly smile.
6  He cast a sly glance at his bridge partner.