Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; in a good sense. "Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves." "Whom graver age And long experience hath made wise and sly."
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"On the sly" Quotes from Famous Books — The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt — Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin — Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps — The Spanish Chest • Edna A. Brown — The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge |
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