CUNNING vs SLY: NOUN
- Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- Shrewdness in deception
- Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity.
- Drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- Skill in deception; guile.
- A variant of cony.
- The river-lamprey.
- Knowledge; learning; special knowledge: sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge.
- Practical knowledge or experience; skill; dexterity.
- Disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice.
- The natural wit or instincts of an animal: as, the cunning of the fox or hare.
- The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
- Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
- The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
- Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skilful deceit.
- N/A
CUNNING vs SLY: ADJECTIVE
- Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
- Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious.
- Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
- Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute.
- Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
- Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
- Marked by skill in deception
- Showing inventiveness and skill
- Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
- Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
- Skillful, artful.
- Cute, appealing.
- Pretty or pleasing.
- The common sheldrake; -- so named from its craftiness.
- Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle.
- Marked by skill in deception
- Clever or cunning, especially in the practice of deceit.
- Stealthy or surreptitious.
- Playfully mischievous.
- Light or delicate; slight; thin.
- Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense.
- Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
- In a sly or secret manner.
CUNNING vs SLY: ADVERB
- N/A
- Slyly.
CUNNING vs SLY: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Characterized by or exercising crafty ingenuity; artfully subtle or shrewd; knowing in guile; guileful; tricky.
- Exhibiting or wrought with ingenuity; skilful; curious; ingenious.
- Marked by crafty ingenuity; showing shrewdness or guile; expressive of subtlety: as, a cunning deception; cunning looks.
- Having knowledge acquired by experience or practice; having technical knowledge and manual skill; skilful; dexterous.
- Knowing; having knowledge; learned; having or concerned with special or strange knowledge, and hence sometimes with an implication of magical or supernatural knowledge. See cunning-man, cunning-woman.
- Curiously or quaintly attractive; subtly interesting; piquant: commonly used of something small or young: as, the cunning ways of a child or a pet animal.
- Synonyms Cunning, Artful, Sly, Subtle, Shrewd, Tricky, Adroit, Wily, Crafty, Intriguing, sharp, foxy. All these words suggest something underhand or deceptive. Cunning, literally knowing, and especially knowing how, now implies a disposition to compass one's ends by concealment; hence we speak of a fox-like cunning. Artful indicates greater ingenuity and ability, the latter, however, being of a low kind. Sly is the same as cunning, except that it is more vulgar and implies less ability. (“A col-fox, ful of sleigh iniquité.” Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 395.) (“Envy works in a sly, imperceptible manner.” Watts.) Subtle implies concealment, like cunning, but also a marked ability and the power to work out one's plans without being suspected; hence, while cunning is applicable to brutes, subtle is too high a word for that, except by figurative use. The rabbit is cunning enough to hide from the dog; Mephistopheles is subtle. (For the favorable meanings of subtle, see astute. For the good senses of shrewd, see acute.) In its unfavorable aspects shrewd implies a penetration and judgment that are somewhat narrow and worldly-wise, too much so to deserve the name of sagacity or wisdom. (See astute.) Tricky is especially a word of action; it expresses the character and conduct of one who gets the confidence of others only to abuse it by acts of selfishness, especially cheating. Adroit, in a bad sense, expresses a ready and skilful use of trickery, or facility in performing and escaping detection of reprehensihle acts. (See adroit.) Wily is appropriate where a person is viewed as an opponent in real or figurative warfare, against whom wiles or stratagems are employed: a wily adversary is one who is full of such devices; a wily politician is one who is notably given to advancing party interests by leading the opposite side to commit blunders, etc. A crafty man has less ability than a subtle man, and works more by deception or knavery than the shrewd man; he is more active than the cunning man, and more steadily active than the sly man; he is on the moral level of the trickish man. Intriguing is applied where the plots are secret arrangements made with others, perhaps against a third party, and especially of a complicated character.
- . Cunning; skilful; shrewd.
- Meanly artful; insidious; crafty.
- Playfully artful; knowing; having an intentionally transparent artfulness.
- Artfully and delicately wrought; cunning; ingenious.
- Thin; fine; slight; slender.
- Illicit: as, sly grog (liquor made in illicit stills).
- Cunning, Artful, Sly, etc. (sec cunning).
- Roguish, playful, waggish.
- Synonyms and
- (idiom) (on the sly) In a way intended to escape notice.
CUNNING vs SLY: RELATED WORDS
- Tricksy, Knavish, Artful, Foxy, Ingenious, Slyness, Guileful, Adroit, Craftiness, Wiliness, Sly, Guile, Clever, Crafty, Wily
- Devious, Subtle, Sneaky, Clever, Tricky, Slick, Dodgy, Knavish, Tricksy, Guileful, Foxy, Artful, Wily, Crafty, Cunning
CUNNING vs SLY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Tricky, Slick, Tricksy, Knavish, Artful, Foxy, Ingenious, Slyness, Guileful, Adroit, Sly, Guile, Clever, Crafty, Wily
- Devious, Subtle, Sneaky, Clever, Tricky, Slick, Dodgy, Knavish, Tricksy, Guileful, Foxy, Artful, Wily, Crafty, Cunning
CUNNING vs SLY: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- They are vile beyond reproach and extremely cunning.
- SAHUAGIN BLADEMASTER A cunning veteran of countless campaigns.
- Superior to a mere cunning, lazy enlisted man.
- Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation.
- This cunning little critter is a brood parasite.
- One cunning person is a match for another.
- By putting on the cunning of a carper.
- Cunning and Strength also match up to events.
- You may oppose force to force, and cunning to cunning; but if the word of the Lord be against you, what power have you?
- Cunning plan to get into the passive version, the coach will need to devise a cunning plan to Benedict!
- Franklin, a sly and crafty politician, counseled patience.
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- It all felt like a sly, human taunt.
- He had a sly, deadpan sense of humor.
- Jake, looking at Tellman with a sly smile.
- He is not power hungry, selfish, or sly.
- All sly, and wanting something out of you.
- Xavier looked at him with a sly smile.
- David Sly, director of Falk College career services.
- Enter aloft SLY, with ATTENDANTS; some with apparel, basin and ewer, and other appurtenances; and LORD SLY.
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