Sly

Adjective

 * 1) Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
 * 2) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; — in a good sense.
 * 3) Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
 * 4) Light or delicate; slight; thin.

Synonyms

 * artful
 * cunning
 * knowing
 * sharp
 * crafty


 * shrewd
 * shifty
 * sly as a fox
 * slim
 * wily

Adverb
sly


 * 1) Slyly.

Adverbs for Sly
subtly; surreptitiously; furtively; actually; insidiously; abominably; dangerously; warily; undiscoverably; undoubtedly; extremely; successfully; miserably; hatefully; maliciously; cleverly; adroitly; astutely; politically; commercially; trickily;  curiously; marvelously.

Thesaurus
Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adroit, arch, artful, astute, back-door, backstairs, cagey, calculating, canny, clandestine, clever, covert, crafty, creep, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, dexterous, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, downy, feline, foxy, furtive, guileful, gumshoe, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, lurk, masterful, pawky, politic, predatory, privy, quiet, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, shady, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skulk, skulking, slick, slide, slim, slink, slinking, slinky, slippery, smart, smooth, snake, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snook, sophistical, steal, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unfrank, unobtrusive, unscrupulous, vulpine, wary, wily

Etymology
From sly:, sley:, from  slǽgr:, slœgr:, from, from. Cognate with slægur:,  slu:,  schlau:. Related to,.

Adjective

 * Arabic: خبيث, ماكر
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bosnian: prepreden
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 鬼黠,  狡黠
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:


 * Finnish: ovela
 * French:, malin, ,
 * German:, , , verschmitzt
 * Italian: furbo, sornione
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Norwegian: slu, sleip
 * Russian:, (wily)
 * Slovak: prešibaný
 * Spanish: astuto


 * Bosnian: lukav
 * Finnish: ovela
 * French:
 * Italian: sornione,


 * Norwegian: slu
 * Russian: ловкий
 * Slovak: prešibaný


 * Finnish: ovela
 * Norwegian: slu,


 * Russian: искусный


 * : sluw, listig
 * : 교활한 (gyohwalhan)


 * : astuto
 * : prešibaný
 * : slug, listig

Anagrams

 * YLS

Noun
sly


 * 1) very young trees, in particular while growing very densely