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Example sentences for: slyly

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His secret weapon was, perhaps, his playfulness, his sense of being slyly amused by a mad world and his own mad self.
Just as McCartney started rumors of his death by appearing on the Abbey Road cover without shoes and on Sergeant Pepper wearing an armband marked "OPD" (alleged to mean Officially Pronounced Dead), so did 2Pac, on his new album, slyly adopt the name "Makaveli"--like Machiavelli, who, according to 2Pac's rapping confrere Chuck D, faked his own death to fool his enemies--and pose on the cover in a crucifixion pose, suggesting he intended a resurrection.
Smith slyly echoes Scorsese's film when Rickman's Voice of God, attempting to convert the reluctant Bethany to his cause, explains that Jesus didn't take it any better when told of the painful destiny that awaited him: "I had to deliver the news to a scared child who only wanted to play with other children."
That kind of pawkiness is fitting in a dictionary edited and published in Edinburgh and which defines pawky as a Scots word meaning “drily or slyly humorous.”
Why would a lexicographer snatch up a unique, Dickensian creation, gag him and bind his real persona hand and foot, then slyly stand an impersonator in his place?