Definitions for Sly

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Spelling: [slahy]
IPA: /slaɪ/

Sly is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in Sly (lsy).

Definitions for Sly

Idioms

  1. on the sly, secretly; furtively:

adjective

  1. cunning or wily:
  2. stealthy, insidious, or secret.
  3. playfully artful, mischievous, or roguish:

Origin of Sly

1150-1200; Middle English sly, sley, from Old Norse slœgr “sly, cunning” (originally “able to strike, able to slay”); see slay

Examples for Sly

The faces seemed to have but one smile, conscious, sly, a little alarmed.

Are its users loud and proud harbingers of the sex-tech revolution, or just people who want to get a bit freaky on the sly?

In fact, some of us would like to think that Fallon meant it as a sly dig and knew exactly what he was asking.

I know her sly manner of feeling her way with those gloves of hers.

Her songs draw on Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, and contemporary hip-hop.

Her sly, skewering banter and provocative cynicism were her defense in a male-dominated profession and also her selling point.

But I had only to open my lips to speak, and away she would run, with a sly smile.

Rambo movie marathon—11 am-12 am, AMCBecause nothing says the holidays like sly Stallone and blood.

"Let them sleep in the bed of honor," said the Princess Medea, with a sly smile at Jason.

The sly, wicked Mimi came slinking to the place where the dragon lay.

Word Value for Sly
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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