slyness

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  • "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 Gull
  • He 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.

  • Tears,' 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. Howells
  • As 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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