sly
Example Sentences
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He shot a sly look at Rowan, who turned his head away.
From Literature
Leigh raised a single brow and gave them a sly smile.
From Literature
Sometimes he’d want to play even when we weren’t in study time, like when we were lining up to go outside and he thought he’d come up with a particularly sly question.
From Literature
After he saves the day, and his Daily Planet colleagues remark on Superman’s skills, his alter ego Clark Kent gives a sly glance to the camera, letting the audience in on the, quite obvious, ruse.
Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
