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slyadjective clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansthe movie pairs a sly, dissembling ex-con with an upstanding, straight-arrow cop artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentionswhy, you sly fellow! I had no idea you were planning my birthday party a sly undercover police officer furtive, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, wilyclose, closemouthed, reticent, secretiveclandestine, covert, darkdeceitful, deceiving, deceptive, devious, duplicitous, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhandedcheating, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, knavish, two-facedlying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthfulinsidious, perfidious, serpentine, treacherous aboveboard, forthright, plainspoken, straightforwardcandid, direct, foursquare, frank, open, plainhonest, trustworthy, truthful tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulnessa sly sense of humor arch, devilish, elvish, espiègle, impish, knavish, leprechaunish, mischievous, pixie(also pixy), pixieish, prankish, puckish, rascally, roguish, scampish, tricksy, waggish, wicked antic, coltish, coy, frisky, frolicsome, kittenish, playful, sportful, sportivegay, happy, lighthearted, whimsicalenergetic, lively, spirited, sprightlyartful, crafty, cunning, trickish, tricky, wilymisbehaving, naughty, troublemakingpestering, riling, teasing grave, grim, sedate, sober, solemn, staid, stern sly, cunning, crafty, wily, tricky, foxy, artful, slick mean attaining or seeking to attain one's ends by guileful or devious means.sly implies furtiveness, lack of candor, and skill in concealing one's aims and methods.a sly corporate raider cunning suggests the inventive use of sometimes limited intelligence in overreaching or circumventing.the cunning fox avoided the trap crafty implies cleverness and subtlety of method.a crafty lefthander wily implies skill and deception in maneuvering.the wily fugitive escaped the posse tricky is more likely to suggest shiftiness and unreliability than skill in deception and maneuvering.a tricky political operative foxy implies a shrewd and wary craftiness usually involving devious dealing.a foxy publicity man planting stories artful implies indirectness in dealing and often connotes sophistication or cleverness.elicited the information by artful questioning slick emphasizes smoothness and guile.slick operators selling time-sharing in the 13th century |