slyly

How To Use slyly In A Sentence

• He is full of little jokes, poshly spoken but slyly funny, indiscreet and competitive too. Times, Sunday Times
• “Delight Higgins,” Slyly Silas said as he pushed aside the dusty yellow cretonne curtain that separated his business from his house and entered the office. City of Glory
• And then there are those who slyly attempt to make the commentator swear. Times, Sunday Times
• Neil sipped slyly at the communion wine, thinking of the violent Norse heroines Trudi had described to him. RUSHING TO PARADISE
• He uses extremely creative images of the devil and demons in order to slyly subvert our expectations.
• While the title character holds up a big VHS tape, you can grin slyly, knowing that you're watching this film on glorious DVD.
• Like Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of "Georgia on My Mind," Ray Charles had a natural affinity for the lie of the land: his voice could embrace the purple-mountained uplift of "America the Beautiful" and ramble slyly through back roads and shantytowns, too. The Lord’s Music and the Devil’s Words
• In contrast to the dignified silence from the other side, even slyly whispered accusations are magnified to sound deafeningly crass.
• Her ruby red lips were grinning slyly as she placed her arms around her lover's neck.
• Below, another less obvious route twists off slyly to the south.