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  • adjective comparative form of sly: more sly

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Examples

  • This Bush is smarter and slyer and isn't what we need representing us. prophet

    First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat 2009

  • But the new six-CD boxed set, Goodbye, Babylon, shows that God may have been slyer than originally thought—having held in reserve long-forgotten and recently discovered gems that have been dusted off by Lance Ledbetter, a twenty-seven-year-old Atlanta software installer and former DJ.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • He and his family had been on the sharp end of France's violent convulsions, but he considered that, to a democratic republic, there were slyer seductions:

    The State Despotic By Mark Steyn 2009

  • Re: Obama is "... just a slyer, more polished version ..." by Richard Mynick on Thursday, Mar 19, 2009 at 12: 56: 12 PM

    Was the Bailout Itself a Scam? 2009

  • David Morse, who has too often been cast as a demented killer, wears a prosthetic nose and becomes a shyer, if slyer, George Washington than we have seen in the past, taking his oath of presidential office in almost a whisper.

    'All Hail, Mr. Adams' Nancy deWolf Smith 2008

  • Perhaps an even slyer slight of hand than the fraudulent Federal Reserve Bank Act, somehow, the Federal Reserve Bank has managed to deceive U.S. citizens into believing the Fed dollar Notes somehow belong to "we the people" when they don't.

    Worried Feds Likely To Arrest Mickey Mouse For Dollar Impersonation 2008

  • And, yes, it was likely a mistake for Newman to re-team with Smight for the amiable but disappointing THE SECRET WAR OF HARRY FRIGG -- this probably played better on paper than on film, and needed a slyer, wittier directorial hand to pull it off.

    Paul Newman = Good. Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • Personally I prefer Cumming which manages to be stronger yet far slyer than this

    Etat Libre d'Orange Tom of Finland Marina Geigert 2008

  • The entrance of the waiters with new dishes caused the Major to be slyer yet, but in a more serious vein.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • Seen in HD, FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN becomes a far slyer, more tactile film and not without purpose.

    HD Notes on FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN 2007

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