| ADJECTIVE | all | sly, crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, tricksy, tricky, wily | marked by skill in deception |
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| Sounds | slay' | |
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| Rhymes | alkali ... walleye: 28 rhymes with lay... | |
| Meaning | marked by skill in deception. | |
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| Example | "sly as a fox" | |
| Synonyms | crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, tricksy, tricky, wily | |
| Broader | artful | marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft |
| Spanish | artero, astuto, bellaco, ladino, pícaro, sagaz, socarrón, taimado | |
| Catalan | astut, bergant, murri, sagaç, sorneguer | |
| Nouns | slyness | shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception |
| Adverbs | slyly | in an artful manner |
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