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slyly

/slahy-lee/US // ˈslaɪ li //

狡猾地,狡猾的,偷偷摸摸地,偷偷地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a deceitful manner; cunningly: They slyly plot to overthrow us.
    • : in a roguish or mischievous way: Some were serious, while others slyly winked at the camera.

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Examples

  • 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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