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Definitions for Slyness

[1] cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
[2] stealthy, insidious, or secret.
[3] playfully artful, mischievous, or roguish: sly humor.
[4] on the sly , secretly; furtively: a tryst on the sly.
[5] crafty; artful a sly dodge
[6] insidious; furtive a sly manner
[7] playfully mischievous; roguish sly humour
[8] on the sly in a secretive manner

Words related to Slyness

slyfalsehood, infamy, duplicity, falsity, stealing, shadiness, deceit, artifice, racket, fraud, dishonesty, graft, double-dealing, infidelity, cheating, trickery, trickiness, bunk, cunning, corruption

Words nearby Slyness

slyslut, slut-shame, slutch, sluter, slutty, sly, sly grog, sly-grog, slyboots, slyly, slype

Origin of Slyness

1150–1200; Middle English sly, sley , from Old Norse slœgr “sly, cunning” (originally “able to strike, able to slay”); see slay

Other words from Slyness

sly·ly , adverb
sly·ness , noun
un·sly , adjective, un·sly·er, un·sly·est.
un·sly·ly , adverb
un·sly·ness , noun

Word origin for Slyness

C12: from Old Norse slǣgr clever, literally: able to strike, from slā to slay

Synonyms for Slyness

artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hocus-pocus, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, shiftiness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness, fourberie, hanky-panky, improbity, sharp practice, underhandedness