Example sentences for: sly

How can you use “sly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Park, accused of committing four counts of fraud, is said to have advised followers to buy certain stocks, which he then sold on the sly as their orders lifted the stocks' prices.

  • According to Professor Spevack, the word hint has no connotation of invitation or covert suggestion: it simply means cue or suggestion; but should not be construed in the modern sense of innuendo, or sly, or teasing, which it came to mean by the end of the 18th century.

  • The speaker's wording was sly as ever--what isn't a "potential" abuse?

  • Each of the previous Batman films had a sly, spry villainous turn, with Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, and Jim Carrey dancing through their roles.

  • You have a sly way of encoding your political slant in statements you then present as our shared views.


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