Example sentences for: slyly

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

  • One could slyly infer from the A12 juxtaposition that with the GOP seeking all top donors to give $1 million apiece, Watergate-style abuses will inevitably reoccur.

  • 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.”

  • His secret weapon was, perhaps, his playfulness, his sense of being slyly amused by a mad world and his own mad self.

  • 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."

  • Sketches sets up processional rhythms and rich, slow-motion harmonies behind Davis, and then slyly extends trickles of harp or flute from the rest of the mass.


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