Definition for Sly:

• Slyness.

Synonyms for Sly:

• adj.

  •Machiavellian (adjective)
  • more opportunist,
  • most opportunist.
  •arch (adjective)
  • playful.
  •artful (adjective)
  • re sourceful,
  • re-sourceful.
  •astute (adjective)
  • quick on uptake,
  • on ball,
  • sharp as tack,
  • more intelligent,
  • quick the uptake,
  • quick uptake.
  •calculating (adjective)
  • gingerly,
  • SAFER,
  • safest,
  • manipulative.
  •canny (adjective)
  • more nimble witted,
  • most streetwise,
  • more acute,
  • most nimble witted,
  • Worldlywise,
  • quickwitted,
  • more nimblewitted,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • most nimble-witted,
  • quick witted,
  • more streetwise,
  • more nimble-witted,
  • heppest,
  • wisest,
  • nimble witted,
  • nimblewitted.
  •clever (adjective)
  • many sided,
  • dexterous-dextrous,
  • dexterousdextrous,
  • most knowledgeable,
  • most capable,
  • more crackerjack,
  • pro,
  • manysided,
  • most crackerjack,
  • most egghead,
  • nobody fool,
  • dexterous dextrous,
  • nobody's fool,
  • more talented,
  • more egghead,
  • quick trigger,
  • witty,
  • more skilled,
  • nobodys fool.
  •clever, devious (adjective)
  • dishonorable,
  • Plotting,
  • sharp,
  • traitorous,
  • delusive,
  • impish,
  • dissembling,
  • illusory,
  • smart,
  • crooked,
  • deceptive,
  • covert,
  • treacherous,
  • scheming,
  • tricky,
  • foxy,
  • intriguing,
  • Bluffing,
  • conniving,
  • double-dealing,
  • elusive,
  • slick,
  • captious,
  • dishonest,
  • smooth,
  • mean,
  • mischievous.
  •cloak-and-dagger (adjective)
  • most hugger-mugger,
  • cloak and dagger,
  • more hugger mugger,
  • more hugger-mugger,
  • most hugger mugger,
  • hugger mugger,
  • hugger-mugger.
  •cunning (adjective)
  • serpentine,
  • feline,
  • masterly,
  • well-laid,
  • slippery,
  • sly boots,
  • quick,
  • deft,
  • fancy footwork,
  • well-planned,
  • snaky,
  • skillful,
  • Slighty,
  • masterful.
  •deceitful (adjective)
  • in-direct,
  • in direct,
  • more feline,
  • more beguiling,
  • mendacious,
  • more deceiving,
  • hypo critical,
  • more impostrous,
  • hypo-critical,
  • most feline,
  • more rascal,
  • un trustworthy,
  • most impostrous,
  • most deceiving,
  • un truthful,
  • more astucious,
  • most beguiling,
  • most astucious,
  • most illusory,
  • mis leading,
  • most rascal,
  • mis-leading,
  • doubledealing,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • un-truthful.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • snide,
  • Imposturous,
  • seeming.
  •deep (adjective)
  • more plotting,
  • most plotting.
  •designing (adjective)
  • de-signing,
  • most conspiring,
  • most conniving,
  • de signing,
  • more conniving,
  • more conspiring.
  •devious (adjective)
  • faking out,
  • more obliquitous,
  • most obliquitous,
  • playing politics,
  • shady.
  •dexterous (adjective)
  • having the know how,
  • more nimblefingered,
  • more nimble-fingered,
  • having knowhow,
  • nimblefingered,
  • most nimblefingered,
  • having the knowhow,
  • effortless,
  • having know how,
  • nimble fingered,
  • most nimble fingered,
  • most nimble-fingered,
  • more nimble fingered.
  •diplomatic (adjective)
  • more opportunistic,
  • most opportunistic.
  •disingenuous (adjective)
  • unfrank,
  • Uncandid.
  •dry (adjective)
  • salty,
  • low key.
  •evasive (adjective)
  • casuistic,
  • sophistical,
  • Elusory,
  • casuistical.
  •foxy (adjective)
  • more retiary,
  • most retiary.
  •furtive (adjective)
  • hush hush,
  • dis-guised,
  • more sub rosa,
  • subrosa,
  • masked,
  • more slinking,
  • under cover,
  • more sub-rosa,
  • dis guised,
  • most skulking,
  • more subrosa,
  • most subrosa,
  • most sub rosa,
  • most conspiratorial,
  • under-cover,
  • more skulking,
  • more under-the-table,
  • more under the table,
  • most slinking,
  • hushhush,
  • most sub-rosa,
  • more conspiratorial,
  • under wraps,
  • most under the table,
  • most under-the-table.
  •ribald (adjective)
  • low down and dirty,
  • more rogue,
  • in-decent,
  • in decent,
  • out line,
  • more foul-mouthed,
  • most foul-mouthed,
  • more foul mouthed,
  • most foul mouthed,
  • low down dirty,
  • off color,
  • foul mouthed,
  • in decorous,
  • lowdown dirty,
  • offcolor,
  • lowdown and dirty,
  • un becoming,
  • un-becoming,
  • in-decorous,
  • most rogue.
  •savvy (adjective)
  • in the know.
  •secret (adjective)
  • under false pretense,
  • backstairs,
  • huggermugger,
  • backdoor,
  • in ambush,
  • top secret,
  • unacknowledged.
  •shifty (adjective)
  • un honest,
  • un-honest,
  • more dodging,
  • Unhonest,
  • more prevaricatory,
  • more unhonest,
  • most prevaricative,
  • most dodging,
  • most prevaricatory,
  • fly by night,
  • more prevaricative,
  • most unhonest.
  •shrewd (adjective)
  • dis-criminating,
  • pro found,
  • on inside,
  • dis criminating,
  • wised up,
  • pro-founder,
  • more argute,
  • Sharker,
  • shrewdest,
  • sharkest,
  • pro founder,
  • pro-found,
  • most argute.
  •slick (adjective)
  • more smooth-spoken,
  • smooth spoken,
  • most smooth spoken,
  • more dextrous,
  • most dextrous,
  • more smooth spoken,
  • more smoothspoken,
  • smoothspoken,
  • most smooth-spoken,
  • most smoothspoken.
  •street smart (adjective)
  • street smart.
  •subtle (adjective)
  • ratiocinative.
  •surreptitious (adjective)
  • hole-and-corner,
  • on the sly.
  •thieving (adjective)
  • thieving.
  •thieving/thievish (adjective)
  • more pilfering,
  • sticky fingered,
  • most lightfingered,
  • most spoliative,
  • more light-fingered,
  • more sticky-fingered,
  • more piratic,
  • more sticky fingered,
  • most piratic,
  • more kleptomaniacal,
  • more light fingered,
  • lightfingered,
  • most sticky fingered,
  • most light-fingered,
  • most sticky-fingered,
  • more spoliative,
  • more stickyfingered,
  • most stickyfingered,
  • light fingered,
  • stickyfingered,
  • more plunderous,
  • most pilfering,
  • light-fingered,
  • more lightfingered,
  • most plunderous,
  • most kleptomaniacal,
  • most light fingered.
  •thievish (adjective)
  • larcenous,
  • most stealing.
  •two-faced (adjective)
  • two faced,
  • more backstabbing,
  • most backstabbing,
  • twofaced.
  •underhand (adjective)
  • more double crossing,
  • on quiet,
  • more dirty-dealing,
  • more two-timing,
  • most dirty dealing,
  • most two-timing,
  • un juster,
  • most two timing,
  • under hand,
  • lubricious,
  • un-juster,
  • most twotiming,
  • more two timing,
  • under-hand,
  • on the quiet,
  • dis honorable,
  • more twotiming,
  • dirty dealing,
  • dirtydealing,
  • most dirty-dealing,
  • most doublecrossing,
  • most dirtydealing,
  • dirty-dealing,
  • un-just,
  • un justest,
  • dis-honorable,
  • un-justest,
  • un just,
  • most double-crossing,
  • most double crossing,
  • more double-crossing.
  •underhanded (adjective)
  • under handed,
  • under-handed.
  •unprincipled (adjective)
  • stop at nothing,
  • amoral,
  • mercentary,
  • stop-at-nothing.
  •unscrupulous (adjective)
  • low down,
  • un worthy,
  • selfseeking,
  • dis graceful,
  • de grading,
  • de-grading,
  • de-graded,
  • dis-graceful,
  • de graded,
  • un conscientious,
  • un worthiest,
  • most unconscientious,
  • un-conscientious,
  • un worthier,
  • most exploitative,
  • more low down,
  • more unconscientious,
  • most lowdown,
  • un-worthier,
  • self seeking,
  • more lowdown,
  • more low-down,
  • un-worthiest,
  • un-scrupulous,
  • un scrupulous,
  • more exploitative.
  •wary (adjective)
  • keeping one toes,
  • keeping on ones toes,
  • watching one step,
  • walking eggs,
  • un wasteful,
  • watching one's step,
  • keeping toes,
  • un-wasteful,
  • more unwasteful,
  • on qui vive,
  • watching out,
  • wide awake,
  • most unwasteful,
  • keeping on toes,
  • keeping ones toes,
  • dis-trustful,
  • dis trustful,
  • watching ones step,
  • keeping on one toes,
  • keeping one's toes,
  • watching step.
  •witty (adjective)
  • funny,
  • droll,
  • scintillating,
  • sarcastic,
  • quick-witted,
  • scurrilous,
  • jocular,
  • resourceful,
  • joking,
  • pointed,
  • sparkling,
  • waggish,
  • pithy,
  • facetious,
  • inventive,
  • brilliant,
  • adroit,
  • sophisticated,
  • comical,
  • intelligent,
  • urbane.

• n.

  •
  • corrupt,
  • fraudulent,
  • untruthful,
  • dubious.
  •cunning (noun)
  • facility,
  • slipperiness,
  • skill,
  • astuteness,
  • foxiness,
  • cleverness,
  • wariness,
  • deftness,
  • sharpness,
  • quickness,
  • mastery,
  • deviousness,
  • trickiness,
  • slickness,
  • subtlety,
  • finesse,
  • art,
  • craftiness,
  • machiavellian,
  • ingenuity,
  • ingeniousness,
  • wiliness,
  • Canniness,
  • smoothness,
  • snakiness,
  • shrewdness,
  • artfulness,
  • wit,
  • guile.
  •phoniness (noun)
  • backhandeds,
  • shifties,
  • perfidiou,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • deceptives,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • un trues,
  • lyings,
  • falses,
  • faithlesses,
  • evasives,
  • ambidextrou,
  • twofaceds,
  • pretentiou,
  • two-faceds,
  • deceitfuls,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • dissemblings,
  • duplicitou,
  • dissimulatings,
  • disingenuou,
  • un-trues,
  • untrues,
  • two faceds,
  • untruthfuls,
  • mendaciou,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • unfaithfuls,
  • deviou.
  •sly (noun)
  • knavish,
  • tricksy.

• v.

  •sneak (verb)
  • de-lude,
  • snooked,
  • moved secretly,
  • de lude,
  • gumshoed,
  • de ludes,
  • de-ludes,
  • snooking,
  • moves secretly,
  • moving secretly.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • secretive,
  • transparent.
  •crafty
  • fair,
  • faithless,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • ratty,
  • dirty.
  •deceitful
  • insincere.
  •shifty
  • pettifogging.
  •shrewd
  • wise.
  •stealthy
  • thievish.

Paraphrases for Sly:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    cunning, deceitful, wicked, underhand, crafty, sweet, hidden, indomitable, secret.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    sneaky, devious, elusive, disingenuous.

Antonyms for Sly:

• adj.

  • clever, devious
    inept, stupid, straight, foolish, simple, honest, open, unclever, straightforward, Behaved.
  • Other antonyms:
    natural, trusting, impressionable, patent, plainspoken, stern, unconcealed, staid, Undesigning, childlike, unvarnished, trustful, outspoken, simpleminded, direct, grave, plain, forthright, frank, public, solemn, real, foursquare, unstudied, unforced, grim, unworldly, trustworthy, sober, sedate, obvious.

Sly Sentence Examples:

• They are as sly as Woakus, the fox.

• I saw you before I turned the cattle loose, but I just let you think you were being real sly and cunning about it.

Homophones for Sly:

• slowly, secale, szell, segal, squally, sea coal, saccule, seoul, squiggle, showily, salah, social, shigella, sialia, skill, sea eagle, seagull, sego lily, sea swallow, sea gull, slow, seashell, scylla, squall, swizzle, silly, sicilia, shawwal, soul, sulla, solea, skull, saale, swill, sail, scaly, socle, scilla, shallow, suckle, slyly, scaley, slaw, scowl, skilly, scull, sagely, salal, shockley, shell, shoaly, seal oil, slay, shallu, sickle, slue, sloe, sequela, sole, SL, salai, sula, sessile, skysail, swallow, saul, soil, squiggly, sial, Sea Cole, seawall, sle, sallow, squilla, salol, sicily, swahili, seckel, shill, solo, seal, sagaciously, swallow hole, saucily, swell, sally, slew, sky glow, sisal, sligh, sale, Swale, slye, sea kale, sea holly, Sea Squill, shillalah, shyly, sickly, squill, sea lily, scheol, shale oil, sewellel, sick call, seel, salaah, sex cell, scheele, sol, shawl, shale, sequel, squeal, sell, shiloh, saxicola, scale, sage willow, seseli, silo, shekel, school, shackle, Sei Whale, sully, shoal, sill, solely, sexual, sizzle, sequella, shelley.