slyly

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Slyly, he told the lawyer he couldn’t possibly connect him with a grad student until he had seen the situation firsthand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Slyly and wittily, he analyzes political events in Shakespeare’s world in terms of our own experience.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2018

Slyly, she titled the self-portrait "Praça de Touros," and a bull ring it is: She's swathed herself in cowhide, becoming an artist as ritual predator and victim rolled into one.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2016

Slyly, the speaker avoids physical description of the girl, instead evoking her beauty by detailing the effect it has on the beholder; the whole poem is a kind of reaction shot.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015

Slyly he wrote poetry,—stilted, pleading things from a soul astray.

From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)