sly

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

marked by skill in deception
- "sly as a fox"

Adj

Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
Light or delicate; slight; thin.

Adv

Slyly.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”). Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd

Synonyms

artful, cautious, crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, knowing, nimble, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skillful, slick, slim, sly as a fox, tricksy, tricky, wily

Scrabble Score: 6

sly is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
sly is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sly is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

sly is a valid Words With Friends word