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slyly

adverb as in cleverly

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A well-chosen image — even the most over-obvious one you can possibly think of — can slyly push us into a kind of dreamlike state, slipping past our conscious mind and burrowing down to our subconscious.

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Sandground liked to tell stories that slyly doubled as publicity.

SDG&E slyly allows the fiction to persist that it pays the franchise fees, though at least one City Council member noted that nearly all of that money is collected from us – SDG&E’s customers.

“The world is porous and full of holes…so you just find the cracks,” Austin says slyly.

“I like the symbolism,” Ware says slyly before reaching for a shopping cart.

He was a shy, abrupt, slyly witty, and intensely thoughtful man.

Leaving the Atocha Station A widely acclaimed debut novel with a slyly self-conscious look at a young poet just passing the time.

Slyly moving past the bushy eye-browed front clerk, I ran upstairs to my mother.

That is,' he slyly added, 'unless your father has already made a will, disinheriting you.'

She moves slyly among the bracken, and her exquisite scent serves to guide her unerringly as she works up wind.

There was Old Slade, from over on the bluff opposite, slyly cutting a sliver of salt fish from one in the bale upon which he sat.

Adelaide turned her quiet face, unflushed, unruffled, and neither laughed sillily nor looked slyly.

Barbara glanced at his thoughtful, strong face from under the edge of her picture-hat, which slyly she had rearranged.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slyly, such as: shrewdly, craftily, cunningly, foxily, furtively, and insidiously.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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