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sly

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Adjective

  1. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
  2. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
  3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
  4. Light or delicate; slight; thin.

Adverb

  1. Slyly.

Proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Sylvester.
  2. A surname

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