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Significados de sly en inglés

Marked by skill in deception.

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      Intelligent, smart and capable of taking advantage of a situation.

            Uso de sly en inglés
            1
            She must be the sly one, all right, with that innocent look.
            Hell hath no fury
            2
            Like you. A sly look my way, as if expecting a response.
            Exit strategy
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            The sly approaches, the astute negotiations, the lying and the circumventing .
            The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
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            That maid said she bought it on the sly all the time.
            Sleeping Fires: a Novel
            5
            But I will remember him for his sly, cheeky sense of humour.
            The Irish Times
            6
            She turned her head and gave a sly peep at Aunt Clara.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 / A Mag...
            7
            He laughed dryly and said, with a sly gleam in his eyes:
            Alice of Old Vincennes
            8
            I think sometimes he runs away and does it on the sly.
            A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...
            9
            And he smiled in a sly self-satisfied way at his pious pun.
            Pieces of Eight / Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Di...
            10
            Indians are sly, and the Sioux are the slyest of them all.
            The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
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            He watched her on the sly as she moved about the room.
            The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
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            His game is all dinks and slices and sly changes of pace.
            The Guardian
            13
            Jax made his own way, and he grew up clever and sly.
            The Wise Man’s Fear
            14
            Madame might give us the guillotine, he said with a sly smile.
            Stunning
            15
            Sometimes it is a sword, which he twirls vigorously in sly corners.
            The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
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            Indeed, the veteran actor nearly steals the evening with his sly underplaying.
            Reuters
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