slyness
Example Sentences
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That it got made before the strict enforcement of the Production Code allowed for a few more liberties than would shortly be permitted, but its bedrock slyness and winking tone are elemental.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Jones is at once affable and intense — a polite slyness radiates off him.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024
But Mill's Dortmund team-mate Norbert Dickel perhaps summed up his slyness best of all when describing him with the pun: "He is washed with all wastewaters."
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2021
But with typical Swiftian slyness, it also means she’s unshackled herself from chronology, so nobody can predict what part of the archive she’ll plunder next.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2021
I didn’t know who “everyone” was, or when “always” was, and as much as I wanted to understand her ambiguities, the slyness was growing annoying.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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