Sly

/slaɪ/

Synonyms for "sly" (164 found)

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Closest matches (33)

Adjective(12 words)

crafty cunning wily arch artful backhanded cattish cleverer cleverest covert craftier craftiest

acute adroit arch artful astuteback doorback-door backstairs byzantine cagey calculating canny clan clandestine clever covert crafty creep

Adjective(2 words)

artful crafty

Noun(1 words)

cheshire

Strong matches (49)

crooked cunning cute deceitful deep deep-laid designing devious dexterous diplomatic dishonest disingenuous downy evasive feline foxy furtive guileful gumshoe hidlings

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hole-and-cornerhugger muggerhugger-mugger ingenious insidious insincere inventive knowing lurk machiavellian machiavellic masterful oblique

Adjective(3 words)

cunning evasive knowing

Adjective(12 words)

cunninger cunningest devious dodgy foxier foxiest foxy furtive gnomish guileful knavish mischievous

Verb(1 words)

leering

Related words (82)

Noun(2 words)

outfoxing slithering

pawky politic predatory privy quiet ready resourceful scheming serpentine shady sharp shifty shrewd skulk skulking slick slide slim slink slinking

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slinky slippery smart smooth snake snaky sneak sneaking sneaky snook sophistical steal stealthy strategic subtile subtle supple surreptitious tactical trickish tricksy trickyunder-the-counterunder-the-tableundercover underground underhand underhanded unfrank unobtrusive unscrupulous vulpine wary wily

Adjective(18 words)

playful secretive shiftier slick slinkier snakiest sneakier sneakiest sneaky stealthysubtle hintteasing thievish trickier tricksy tricky waggish wiliest

Adjective(6 words)

sharp shifty shrewd slimsly as a foxwily

Verb(2 words)

smirked weaseled

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

5 entries

behavioral qualitybehavioral traitcharacter traitcleverness demeanor

More specific

11 entries

artfulness craftiness furtiveness guile humor mischief playfulness secrecy stealth surreptitiousness teasing

Collocations

6 entries

sly grinsly looksly maneuversly remarksly tacticsly wit

Inflections

2 entries

slyer slyest

Derivations

2 entries

slyly slyness

similar

1 entries

artful

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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I don't like him because he is sly as a fox.

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He is a sly fox.

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He appears sly on the surface.

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Aren't you the sly one?

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