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Webster 1913 Edition


Slyly

Sly′ly

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adv.
In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
Honestly and
slyly
he it spent.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Slyly

SLYLY

, SLYNESS. [See Slily, Sliness.]

Definition 2024


slyly

slyly

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slyly (comparative more slyly, superlative most slyly)

  1. (obsolete) Dexterously, skilfully.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.V:
      He wolde nat abyde uppon no poure man for no maner of thyngand ever he slow slyly and slypped to another, tylle all were slayne to the numbir of a hondred thousand
  2. In a sly manner, cunningly.

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