slily
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Then, slily combining his oldtime East Side accent with the local vernacular, he said: "I hope to meet yez-all personally before I leave."
From Time Magazine Archive
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"You are certainly a most unusual brother, I can tell you," she said, smiling slily.
From By Right of Sword by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)
You, at any rate, are not ashamed,' he continued slily, 'of going to tay with your mammy, or of perambulating by the say with a colleen asthore!
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
"Still it is possible to recoup that," rejoined the boy slily.
From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
‘Have you no pity for a poor mother?’ asked the fox, putting her tail to her eyes, but peeping slily out of them all the same.
From The Orange Fairy Book by Various
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