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slyness
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
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How to use slyness in a sentence
"Certainly sometimes discretion is the better part of recollection," giving her a look of great slyness as he spoke.
A Butterfly on the Wheel | Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger GullHe had already acquired the wisdom, or perhaps in his case slyness is a better word, of years by the time that he came to us.
The Animal Story Book | VariousTears,' said Job, with a look of momentary slyness—'tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones.'
The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens
A gleam of gratified slyness lit up the haggardness of Northwick's face.
The Quality of Mercy | W. D. HowellsAs a means of settling this conflict there occurs to him an experiment which he executes with slyness and restored courage.
Delusion and Dream | Wilhelm Jensen
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